One individual stood up to the Soviet Unions statesponsored mental and physical torture. and after 9 years it was Moscow who surrendered. not Anatoly Shcharansky. While we celebrate the victory of the moment. we must pause to contemplate the struggle ahead. Millions lie anguishing in the prisons and labor camps of the gulag and under the oppression and discrimination of apartheid. It is too easy to focus only on the famous martyrs at the expense of the faceless millions. At this time. an estimated 350.000 Jews in the Soviet Union alone have Indicated a desire to emigrate. The release of Anatoly Shcharansky cannot be the end of our battle. It must mark the beginning of an even greater effort.
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