Dissidents: Better Late Than Never

Better Late Than Never

There are signs that the relentless focus of the Western press is no longer the blessing it once was for Anatoli Shcharansky. Only two weeks after his release from nine years in the Soviet Gulag, Shcharansky seemed to have more on his mind than his prison experiences. He revealed that after his arrival in West Germany, he promised his wife Avital a vacation, delayed because of the demands the media were making on his time. "I can tell you very frankly that it harms me from going deeper in our personal family life, which we want to start as soon as...

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