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Commentary Magazine - Shcharansky's Secret (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06) |
 | | On the Ides of March 1977, Anatoly Shcharansky was seized by agents of the KGB, the Soviet secret police, and taken to Lefortovo Prison in Moscow to be investigated for "crimes against the state." No one doubted that he had been arrested and accused of treason as a Jewish leader. |
 | | ...Shcharansky's Judaism had originated in what Proust used to call the indescribable bond of metaphor, the recognition that we stand where our ancestors stood because we were potentially present in their imaginations... |
 | | ...Shcharansky spoke of the Jewish exile, of the Zionist movement, of the large Jewish role in the Bolshevik Revolution, of Stalin's campaign against the Jews, of the emigration movement, of the Jewish determination not to disappear as a people, and of his pride in being a part of the modern Jewish renaissance... |
| www.commentarymagazine.com /Summaries/V82I4P54-1.htm (3034 words) |
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