The news about the upcoming exchange of the “spy” Sutyagin is a good illustration of the thesis about the inscrutable ways of the Lord. Who would have thought that from the stupid Lubyanka agents in the USA, from this long-failed semi-pornographic radio operator Kat and her comrades in laundering the dough, a good deed would suddenly happen at the exit!
It's fun.
And it's sad, that's what. There were no mechanisms for the release of a notoriously innocent person, the physicist Sutyagin, in Russia. Correct - not even a mistake, but a monstrous official abuse of investigators and leaders of the FSB - Medvedev and Co. did not have enough political will.
The Russian authorities insisted on their lies, dragging into it a man whom they held hostage for ten years. The condition for the release of Sutyagin, of course, will be his admission of guilt ...
“Unfortunate is the country in which there are no heroes!” - cried the student of Galileo, after the renunciation of the teacher, in Brecht's play of the same name. “Unfortunate is the country that needs heroes,” Bertolt Brecht answered with the words of Galileo.
Physicist Sutyagin - an honest, wonderful person - will now live far from his homeland. Another honest person in Russia has become less, but it’s better this way ...