Who can forget Solzhenitsyns account of the arbitrary 10- and 20year sentences imposed on his innocent countrymen for the most absurd imagined transgressions against the allpowerful Soviet state? The case of Anatoly Shcharansky is Just such a nightmarish instancethe stuff of which existentialist novels would be written. if the facts were not so frighteningly real. Imprisoned for 5 years today. Shcharanskys plight makes "catch 22" seem rational by comparison. Shcharansky applied for permission to emigrate to Israel. to settle there in peace with his newly acquired bride. Avital. A computer specialist by trade. he was denied that permission on the specious grounds that he was privy to secret state technology relating to computers.
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