Leonard Shcharansky. brother of Anatoly and others in Moscow. They heard the same story. But the Moscow meeting had more ominous overtones because the group included close relatives of prominent dissidents. Religious persecution remains a serious problem in the U.S.S.R. This discrimination is applied to all religious sects. but notably the Pentecostalists. The most publicized and moving example. of course. are the Vashchanks and Chmykholove families living like refugees in the basement of the U.S. Embassy. Every congressional delegation that visits Moscow cannot pass up this display of Russian tyranny. nor can they avoid heartbreak seeing a courageous family endure this crude punishment.
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