In 1973. Shcharansky was employed as a mathematical engineer at the All Union Research Institute on Petroleum and Gas. When he applied for a visa to leave the Soviet Union and so that he could live in Israel. his request was refused. He was dismissed from his job immediately and had to give private lessons in order to earn a living. Anatoly became an active and wellrespected member of the movement to insure the rights of Soviet Jews to emigrate. I was honored to have Shcharansky serve as my guide and translator when I visited the Soviet Union in 1975. I found Shcharansky to be enormously committed to his belief in the letter of the Helsinki Final Act. and extremely effective in mobilizing the Moscow Helsinki Group from its inception.
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