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WELL OF COURSÉ, THAT WAS ALL PRE-I SCIENCE YOU cracy, and in 1968 his security clearanco was withdrawn. He was effectively demoted to more mundane work.
In 1980, after years of harassment of himself, his wife Elena Bonner and his family, he was sentenced to five years' internal exile in the closed town of Gorky, ushera ha etill attamnte in wHoto no attempts carry on his scientific research.
The last straw for Sakharoy and Bonner came when, after their son was allowed to emigrate to Australia, their daughter in law was refused permission to join him. This petty bureaucratic spitefulness has caused SakharIv and Bonner to embark on a hunger strike, demanding that Lisa Alexeyevna be allowed to join her husband.
To the shame of the labour movement in Britain, we usually leave defence of Russian oppositionists to groups like Amnesty or to the anti-socialist press or politicians. I feel strongly that we have a duty to put what pressure we can, through our movement, on the Russian bureaucrats who are busy covering the name of socialism in yet more filth.
I urge readers to try to get resolutions passed in ıneır union or Ladour rany Alala asia. n.... branches etc or write to Pres. Brezhnev [Kremlin, Moscow] condemning the imprisonment of Koryagin, the exile of Sakharov and the refusal of the Russian government to allow Lisa Alexeyevna to join her husband abroad.
You could also try putting pressure on Labour MPs and trade union officials, many of whom are only too keen to hobnob with ieaders of Russian so-callec trade unions, to raise thes? issues. Lastiy, messages of support to Sakharov ano Elena Bonner would probably be welcome [Gorky, 'ISSR].