He chose to speak out against a nation which refuses to acknowledge the very basics of human existence. the right to selfrespect. liberty. and expression in opposition to oppression. The sentence by the court of a man so ill in health as he. was not a prison sentence. it was a death sentence. It cast a death knell to him and all the other Jews in the Soviet CXXVI- 18--Part 1 Union who wish to emigrate from a nation which views freedom as something available to only a few. Anatoly Shcharansky awaits his chance to be free. His only source of strength and hope is his dream that somewhere in the free world people pray for is release.
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