Here I would like to examine as specifically as possible the major categories. with the objective of welcoming what has been accomplished but also recognizing how much still remains to be done." In fact. under the new policy of "glasnost." mixed signals were in evidence. While no Jewish refuseniks were sent to prison this year. and most public demonstrations were undisturbed by the police. there have been reports of allegedly "spontaneous" attacks on activists. as in the case of the assault on Inna Begun as she demonstrated on behalf of her then imprisoned husband. Iosif Begun. and the emergence into the open of extremist elements who are known to be extremely nationalistic. xenophobic. and antiSemitic. Most prominent among them was a group named Pamyat ("memory"). "Glasnost" has been selective. providing a new public platform for antiSemites. but denying it to Jewish activists. An example of this is the publication of Let Us Live As We Choose. by Jews of the official "AntiZionist Committee." and the failure to permit the publication of the response of veteran Moscow refusenik Viktor Fulmakht. who stated: "....
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