"Leaving Mother Russia" - by Safam

Fight of the Soviet Jews for the rights to immigrate to Israel and religious FREEDOM.
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Natan (Anatoly) Sharansky.
Born in Donetsk, Soviet Union (now in Ukraine) to a Jewish family, he graduated with the degree in applied mathematics from Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology.
After being denied an exit visa to Israel on the grounds of national security in 1973, he worked as an English interpreter for prominent physicist and dissident Andrei Sakharov, and also became a human rights activist. Sharansky was one of the founders and the spokesman of Jewish and the Refusenik movement in Moscow Helsinki Watch Group, also known as Yuri Orlov's group.
In March 1977 he was arrested and in July 1978 convicted on charges of treason and spying for the United States and sentenced to 13 years of forced labor. After 16 months of incarceration in Lefortovo prison he was sent to a Siberian labor camp Perm 35 where he served for nine years. The fate of Sharansky and other political prisoners in the USSR, repeatedly brought to attention by Western human rights groups and diplomats, was a cause of embarrassment and irritation for the Soviet authorities. In 1986, he was flown to East Germany and led across the Glienicke Bridge to West Berlin where he was exchanged for a pair of Soviet spies: Karl Koecher and his wife, Hana Koecher. Famed for his resistance in the Gulag, he was told upon his release to walk straight towards his freedom; Sharansky instead walked in a zigzag in a final act of defiance. Sharansky then emigrated to Israel, adopting a Hebrew given name Natan.

Sharansky was the chairman and founder (in 1995) of the political party Israel BaAliya ("Israel for aliya", or a pun, "Israel on the up") promoting the absorption of the Soviet Jews into the Israeli society. With another ex-Soviet dissident Yuli Edelstein as a cofounder and a slogan stating that their political party is different: its leaders first go to prison and only then go into politics, the party won seven Knesset seats in 1996.

In 2005 Sharansky participated in "They Chose Freedom", a four-part television documentary on the history of the Soviet dissident movement.
He was listed under number eleven on the list of TIME magazine's 100 most influential people of 2005 in the "Scientists and thinkers" category...


Sharansky takes what many of his critics call a hardline position towards the Palestinians, arguing that there can never be peace between Israel and the Palestinians until the latter rid their society of terrorist groups like Hamas and of anti-Semitism. His critics see an incompatibility between his ardent Zionism and his commitment to the struggle for universal human rights and democracy.
In a recent Ha'aretz interview, he maintained the "Jews came here 3,000 years ago and this is the cradle of Jewish civilization. Jews are the only people in history who kept their loyalty to their identity and their land throughout the 2,000 years of exile, and no doubt that they have the right to have their place among nations—not only historically but also geographically. As to the Palestinians, who are the descendants of those Arabs who migrated in the last 200 years, they have the right, if they want, to have their own state... but not at the expense of the state of Israel."
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As a child, Sharansky was a chess prodigy - something highly valued in the U.S.S.R. He performed in simultaneous and blindfold displays, usually against adults. When incarcerated in solitary confinement, he claims to have played chess against himself in his mind.
Sharansky beat the world chess champion Garry Kasparov in a "Simul" game that was held in Israel...

(from WIKIPEDIA)

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[stevenewman]

you need to re-listen to this song. it was orginally written over 20 years ago and it was about Anatole Schransky, when he left Russia.

Get a clue

[danceillusions13]

I'm Russian , and it's a shame for me to think how much harm my nation has done to the Jews.

[jeffbklyn]

Excellent and moving song/video

[holycrap71t]

@danceillusions13 then you dont know what the jews did to your own people. They were behind communism who killed million of your people.

Google jews killed miilions of russians.

[HopeWithPandora]

Thank-you for this...

Beautifully sang and presented...

[nastenkakoza1]

Moonraven09 sent me here, and knowing him, he only likes on scary stories vids, but THIS... wow :l no idea...

[ToaYeranhu]

Is it just me, or is 1:35 a picture of Vilnius?

[ToaYeranhu]

@MegaGenesis2012: Thank you. it's good to see at least one intelligent person in this mess.

Jewish people all over the world, I apologize for this swirling mass of premature neo-Nazi fanatics.

Not all Gentiles are like this.

[cb44ever]

@jave042 actually logic usually shows who says this about jews is doing it themselves : nazis  : jews taking over world ....the nazis attempt to do so

[mcfrdmn]

Lovely song

[rainawein]

camp modin brought me here

[MegaGenesis2012]

Jews have been discriminated against due to many generations of blame for the death of Christ, Europe being prodominatly Christian kept these biases. When Jews were first given freedom they tried to be the best citizens they could by hard labor and overachieving. Once some of them started to accumulate wealth they were accused of trying to control the economy. If Jews made communism, and theyre obsessed with having more than anyone else, why would the Jews eliminate the opportunity to accumulat