He is scheduled to be released in November of this year. The release of refuseniks. like Anatoly Shcharansky. can be directly attributed to pressure applied by the West on the Soviet regime. The Kremens and hundreds of thousands like them have not been so fortunate. We owe it to those refuseniks to redouble our efforts to guarantee their right to emigrate and to live In freedom outside the Soviet Union. In closing. I am reminded of the words of Ida Nudel. a former Soviet Jewish prisoner of conscience and now a refusenik: No matter how I am tormented. how weak I am. how lonely or senseless my present life.
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