Vitaly Rubin. an expert on China. and Vladimir Galatsky. an artist. The message from the three demonstrators was the last one they were able to communicate to the West before their telephones were cut by the Soviet authorities. The three have been trying for several years to get permission to emigrate to Israel. They have received repeated refusals. They have resorted to a hunger strike to dramatize the arbitrariness of Soviet emigration practices in general and the denial of exit visas to them in particular. David Azbel spoke out in Moscow several weeks ago in reference to Solzhenitsyns "Gulag Archipelago." A prisoner in Gulag during the Stalin era. Abzel stated that he wished he had been among those 200 who told Solzhenitsyn about the dreadful years in Stalinss torture chambers.
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