In the 1985 Cold War thriller White Nights, Mikhail Baryshnikov plays a Soviet ballet dancer who defects to the West. Years later, when his plane makes an emergency landing in Siberia, the dancer races down the aisle in horror, screaming, “We are landing in Russia!”
Many Russians who managed to escape Putin’s iron curtain are now facing the same terrifying fate, only this time the destination isn’t an accident. The Trump administration is callously handing over dissidents and Russian Army deserters to the very goons they sought to evade in the first place. The beleaguered deportees are greeted at the Moscow arrivals lounge by F.S.B. agents with arrest warrants and handcuffs.
