He knows this. yet he lives in a land in which there is no Justice for those who fall out of favor with the state. He had the misfortune to be born a Jew with a conscience in the Soviet Union. All that Shcharansky sought was the upholding of basic human rights: the fair treatment of Jews within the Soviet Union and permission to emigrate for those who want to leave. A just society would allow these things. The Soviet Union has reacted by sentencing him to prison and hard labor and. most recently. by trying to turn his punishment into a hell on Earth.
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