The worst punishment is reserved for those who not only criticize the regime. but who also send that criticism abroad. The Kremlin has already arrested and sentenced 35 Helsinki Watchers. those groups of Soviet citizens who banded together in compliance with the Final Act of the Conference on Security and Cooperation in Europe. signed by 35 countries. including the Soviet Union. The Final Act actually encourages citizens to monitor their own countrys performance in human rights. Anatoly Shcharansky was sentenced to 13 years of hard labor in 1978. not for the trumped up charges of cooperating with foreign intelligence agencies. but for being in contact with foreigners in his quest to emigrate. The list goes on and onBukovsky. Amalrik.
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