Throughout the free world protests erupted against the sentences. against the travesty of justice that the trials represented. in Moscow. Andrei Sakharov led a courageous citizens protest movement. Confronted with such vigorous international condemnation. the Soviet court commuted the death sentences to 15 years in labor camps and shortened the original labor camp sentences. The Leningrad incident. whose 14th anniversary we observe today. served as the starting point of the movement to ensure unrestricted emigration from the U.S.S.R. for Soviet Jewry. Looking back. we can see clearly the roots of that brave. desperate act. The men and women who participated in the hijacking were youngmany just out of school.
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