Though I was unable to join in the colloquy. I did not want to let the occasion pass without personally noting this womans brave fight against oppression. Ida Nudel first experienced the brutality and degradation of Soviet harassment and imprisonment after expressing her desire to emigrate to Israel by hanging a poster from her balcony. What is regarded in America as a commonplace exercise of free speech. is considered a state crime in the Soviet Union. It is Ida Nudel. and her Refusenik colleagues. who remind Americans of the joys of liberty and who remind the world that freedom must not be a characteristic of nationality but rather a characteristic of the human race.
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