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		<title>The Fight for Liberty</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[The campus PC police and the culture of fear in academia.]]></description>
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<p><strong>[This article is reprinted from the <a href="http://www.nas.org/">National Association of Scholars</a>.]</strong></p>
<p>Jamie Glazov, editor of <em>Frontpage  Magazine</em>, has recently published a loving <a href="../2010/03/11/remembering-a-dissident/">tribute</a> to his father, Yuri  Glazov (1929-1998). Glazov tells how his father sacrificed his career and good  name as an academic (he was a scholar at the Soviet Academy of Sciences and a  professor at Moscow State University) to challenge the  corruption and oppression of the Soviet  Union. For denouncing Soviet human rights abuses, Yuri  Glazov was persecuted by the KGB, blacklisted from employment, and nearly sent  to Siberian labor camp.</p>
<p>Miraculously he was able to escape the Soviet Union and  move his family to the United  States and then to Canada, where he taught  Russian studies until his death of cancer. He never gave up the fight for  freedom in Russia. Today,  Dalhousie University, where Glazov taught  for twenty years, honors his memory by granting an <a href="http://russianstudies.dal.ca/Awards/index.php">award</a> in his name:</p>
<blockquote><p>the Professor <a href="http://russianstudies.dal.ca/Awards/index.php">Yuri  Glazov Memorial Award</a> will be given annually to a student who shows an  outstanding capacity to combine civic duty and charitable service with a love  for the humanities.</p></blockquote>
<p>As one who has lived in and visited Russia many  times—albeit after the fall of Communism—I can attest to the dark Soviet cloud  that still haunts this beautiful, broken country. Yuri Glazov’s courage to stand  up to injustice even though it meant endangering his career, his family, and his  life, was a response to what he knew to be true—that human life had dignity, and  that freedom was worth fighting for. Liberal education in all times and in all  places should foster such beliefs.</p>
<p>Today even in  the land of the free and the home of the brave, a culture of fear exists in  academia for those who dissent from politically correct orthodoxy. We don’t have  the KGB to contend with, but the campus PC police can often be just as menacing.  We draw attention to <a href="http://frontpagemag.com/2010/03/11/remembering-a-dissident/">Glazov’s life</a> in hopes that our friends on campus will draw  boldness from his story and will have the courage to stand up for the pursuit of  truth and freedom, even in the face of persecution.</p>
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