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Many aliya pioneers, isolated from the West and Israel, went through hardships of prisons and labor camps. In the darkness of incarceration they took over from a few survivors, the Zionists of twenties-thirties. In the GULAG they developed friendships and trust among themselves, which enabled them later to widen dangerous activities for national revival throughout the totalitarian country.

Theq were the first to stand up against tyranny and totalitarianism and struggle for freedom of emigration and national revivel

Zionist activists in fifties-sixties