"Special Order - Anatoly Shcharansky" Speech on the U.S. House Floor

Title

"Special Order - Anatoly Shcharansky" Speech on the U.S. House Floor

Description

In a speech on the U.S. House floor, Congressman Les AuCoin advocated for the release of Soviet dissident Anatoly Shcharansky (who later changed his named to Natan Sharansky) from a Soviet labor camp on the two year anniversary of his arrest. After the Soviet government denied Shcharansky's request to move to Israel, Shcharansky became a "refusenik" activist. He was eventually arrested by the KGB and accused of high treason, among other charges, and imprisoned at a Soviet forced labor camp. He was released by Soviet president Mikhail Gorbachev. This is one of a collection of digitized objects from the Les AuCoin Papers (MS.147) at the Pacific University Archives. AuCoin served in the Oregon House of Representatives (1971-1975) and in the United States House of Representatives from Oregon's 1st District (1975-1993).

Creator

AuCoin, Les

Date: Display

March 15, 1979

Identifier

PUA_MS147_244

Subject

Shcharansky, Anatoly
Refuseniks
United States--Foreign relations--Soviet Union
United States. Congress. House.
Legislators--United States

Place

Moscow, Russia
Soviet Union
Israel
United States

Copyright

http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/NoC-CR/1.0/

Source

Pacific University Archives

Type

Text