The barbaric treatment of Mr. Shcharansky remains the single most glaring example of the Soviet Unions overall attitude toward its Jewish citizens and toward all those in the U.S.S.R. who work for human rights and human dignity. In recent weeks we have celebrated the release of the prominent Soviet Jewish prisoner of conscience Yosef Mendelevich. and the apparent increase in the number of Soviet Jews being granted exit visas. Yet these cases are just drops in the bucket. and we must not permit our joy for these individuals to overshadow the terrible fate that continues to befall Anatoly Shcharansky and so many thousands of other Soviet Jews who are harassed. imprisoned. and sent into internal exile for seeking to emigrate to Israel. What could be crueler than to deny an individual the right to rejoin his family? Yet the Soviet Union has kept Avital Shcharansky waiting for 42 years to see her husband again.
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