Prof. Vitaly Rubin, a leading Moscow Jewish activist, arrived in Israel with his wife Friday after a four-and-a-half-year struggle to leave the Soviet Union. Rubin, an expert on ancient China, said he will continue to serve as a watchdog on Soviet compliance with the Universal Declaration of Human Rights.
Rubin, 53, was greeted at Ben Gurion Airport by his twin sister who emigrated to Israel five years ago. He said he was happy to be allowed to return to the country which “I regarded as my homeland for so many years.”
The world does not seem to understand that the Soviet Jewry emigration movement is one of the most important events in contemporary history. Rubin declared. He said that as the turn of the century heralded the fall of the Russian monarch, the present Jewish movement signifies the approaching downfall of Soviet imperialism. He stressed that the fate of the free world is bound with that of Soviet Jewry.
Rubin has a chair waiting for him at Hebrew University and has been invited to lecture at Columbia University and other American schools.
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