Hebrew classes are disrupted. prayer services are dispersedJews in the Soviet Union are not able to celebrate the religious holidays central to their faith. An ominous illustration of the heightened pressure on observant Jews is the harsh sentence given to Iosef Begun by a Soviet court on October 14. Begun. whose offense was to desire to emigrate and his effort to teach the Hebrew language. received the maximum sentence of 12 years7 years in prison and 5 years in Internal exile. Beguns harsh sentence is in return a grim reminder of what Soviet authorities had earlier done to Anatoly Shcharansky. a leader of the Jewish cultural movement in the 1970s. Shcharansky. falsely accused of espionage on behalf of the United States and sentenced in 1978 to 13 years. has suffered in labor camps and is now imprisoned in the notorious Chistopol prison.
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