Future generations will accord Shcharansky the same honor Americans reserve for the courage and sacrifice of Nathan Hale. Anatoly Shcharansky is a living indictment of the Soviet political system. His courage represents a stinging rebuke of the parody of justice practiced in the Soviet Union. His socalled crime is that he is a Jew who wishes to honor his religious heritage with his family. He wishes to emigrate. For that high crime. he has been sentenced to 13 years in imprisonment under conditions which will make survival almost impossible. That virtual death sentence followed a kangaroo trial in 1978 that has come to represent to the entire world the absurd nature of what is called Soviet justice.
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