Born in 1946 in Leningrad, while still quite young he actively entered the fight for democracy in the Soviet Union, distributing anti-Soviet books and manifests. In 1969 he was arrested, charged with anti-Soviet activity and sentenced to 3 years of imprisonment in the Gulag. After his release he constantly applied for an exit visa to go to Israel, but was arrested again and sentenced to 6 month in jail. Released in 1974, he received the exit visa in the same year and immediately went to Israel.
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