The National Conference on Soviet Jewry has learned that eighteen year-old Leningrad activist Mikhail Tsivin, twice arrested and briefly incarcerated for openly dramatizing his desire to emigrate to Israel, was conscripted into the Soviet military today. Tsivin’s emigration activism will now be curtailed for several years.
The Jewish youth encountered extreme pressure from the Soviet authorities-as a result of his public announcements of his wish to live in Israel, particularly following his second arrest April 16, when he chained himself to a fence in Moscow’s Red Square and displayed a sign that read “Let Me Go To Israel.” For both public demonstrations, Tsivin was jailed for 15 days.
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