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11 Facts About Iosif Begun

1.

Iosif Begun was pardoned and freed in 1987 after political pressure from Jewish political organizations and the US Government.

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2.

Iosif Begun was born and grew up in Moscow, Soviet Union.

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3.

Iosif Begun graduated from the radio technology department of the Moscow Power Engineering Institute, in 1957, and the department of mathematics at Moscow State University, in 1962.

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4.

Iosif Begun received a Candidate of Technical Sciences degree and worked as an electronics engineer and a statistician.

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5.

From 1971 to 1988, Iosif Begun was repeatedly arrested for his political activities.

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6.

Iosif Begun was dismissed from his job as an engineer in 1971 after having submitted an application to emigrate.

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Iosif Begun advocated for the free emigration of Soviet Jews to Israel.

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8.

Iosif Begun's struggles led to wide protests in the West, by NCSJ and other Jewish organizations, and to US diplomatic protestations.

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9.

In February 1987 refusenik protests against Iosif Begun's continuing imprisonment took place on Arbat Street in downtown Moscow.

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10.

Iosif Begun was fully rehabilitated in 1992, and got back his Russian citizenship in 2001.

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11.

Iosif Begun settled in Jerusalem, and as of 2010 was running a small publishing house specializing in the translation of Jewish books into Russian.

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