From Russia, With Love

Now, for not a few Westerners these days, freedom is an empty word. They're dismissive of it; many scoffs at it; they say there's no such thing as freedom, that it's just a right-wing buzzword; some claim that, even if there is such a thing as freedom, then countries like the U.K. and U.S. are no freer than any others, or that the West is the least free place of all. Kisin knows otherwise. He knew what unfreedom felt like. And from his first day on British soil, he felt his new freedom in his bones. "Twenty-five years on," he writes, "that feeling of freedom has never gone away. Nor has my adopted country ever disappointed me."

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