Not only have Soviet authorities weathered the storms of protest that surrounded such wellpublicized cases but they have continued to arrest people. seizing scores whose names are virtually unknown beyond Soviet borders. One by one. individuals who dared to challenge official ideology in any way have been picked up and sent awayto prison. to exile or abroad. More than 50 Helsinki monitors are in prison or internal exile in the Soviet Union. and this figure does not include the many who have been forced to emigrate to the West. When I was in Moscow in September. 1979. I met with some of the remaining members of the Moscow Helsinki Group.
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