*PLEASE ANSWER PLS & TY How did the West work towards the release of Natan Sharansky? a.) The West offered a prisoner exchan
ge and applied international pressure. b.) With the help of his wife, Sharansky pleaded with the West to help pay for his release from communism. c.) Sharansky used the power of the pen to help win his release from a communist concentration camp. d.) The West effectively worked out a scheme which allowed Sharansky to defect during a chess match.
Natan Sharansky is an Israel politician who was held in prison by USSR for the charge of spying to Americans. In 1973, Sharansky applied for exit visa to Israel, which was denied by the USSR agencies on the ground that he has passed high security information to the West. He spent thirteen years of his life in prison.
<u>His story took over the news in the West and won many sympathies from them. The USSR government was pressurised by the American government to release Sharansky. He received support from the Western countries. He was released in a prisoner exchange on 11th February 1986</u>.
The borders between the Soviet republics never acted as barriers to migration, fulfilling only an administrative function. Soviet migration policy focused mainly on internal migration, for the purpose of redistributing the labor force. Millions of people moved between the Soviet republics as the state attempted to regulate internal migration primarily by stimulating resettlement to sparsely populated regions with considerable deposits of natural resources, including to northern and far-eastern Russia and to Kazakhstan.
Following the collapse of the Soviet Union, migration policy in the region underwent serious transformation. The newly independent post-Soviet states began setting up their own institutions to regulate migration and citizenship, and it soon became clear that Russian immigration law needed reform.
