KOR began monitoring Helsinki compliance in Poland in September The Moscow Group disbanded after several years of brutal repression. The other groups in the U.S.S.R. struggle on in the face of virtually crushing repression. In February. Natan Shcharansky. after 9 years of imprisonment. imposed for no more than wanting to emigrate. crossed the Glienicke bridge to freedom. That crossing was not simply from East to West but a passage between two worlds. from the inhuman conditions of the gulag to a world where fundamental freedoms are cherished and protected. One of the message brought by Shcharansky as that he would not forget those he left behind: In labor camps and prisons.
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