Refusenik authorities to significantly increase the emigration quota. In the years 1960 through 1970, only about 3,000 Soviet Jews had (legally) emigrated from the USSR; after the trial, in the period from 1971 to 1980 347,100 people received a visa to leave the USSR, 245,951 of them were Jews. Refuseniks included Jews who desired to emigrate on religious grounds, Jews seeking to immigrate to Israel for Zionist aspirations, and relatively secular Jews desiring to escape continuous state-sponsored antisemitism. A leading proponent and spokesman for the refusenik rights during the mid-1970s was Natan Sharansky. Sharansky's involvement with the Moscow Helsinki Group helped
Natan Sharansky dissident movement, and in 2008 he was featured in Laura Bialis' documentary "Refusenik". In 2014, he took part in Natella Boltyanskaya's documentary "Parallels, Events, People". He was number eleven on the list of "Time" magazine's 100 most influential people of 2005 in the "Scientists and thinkers" category. Sharansky is the author of three books. The first is the autobiographical "Fear No Evil", which dealt with his trial and imprisonment. His second book, "The Case for Democracy: The Power of Freedom to Overcome Tyranny and Terror" was co-written with Ron Dermer. George W. Bush offered praise for the book: If you