The Met still puts on big, starry shows, with hundreds of gifted people laboring behind the scenes to bring them to life.

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Without their leadership and steely resolve, the bright light of freedom for some 300 million people laboring under the yoke of Soviet totalitarianism would likely have remained elusive.

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It starts when you first arrive on the island and you see a group of people silently laboring on a shrine near a glowing green tower.

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For people like myself, laboring under the twin tyrannies of tradition and socialism when I first read Rand in my native India, this is heady, empowering stuff.

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