Because the Soviet Union has failed to honor that promise. I would like to once again bring to the attention of my colleagues. the plight of Ida Nudel. This courageous and giving woman has repeatedly requested a visa to emigrate to Israel since 1971. and has been refused each time. As a result of her efforts to obtain the visa. on June 21. 1978. she was sentenced to 4 years of exile in Siberia. Her crime was displaying a banner from her apartment which read: "KGB. Give Me My Visa." She was tried in a Moscow court where she was allowed no representation. and no witnesses in her favor were allowed to testify. This wonderful woman. suffering from a deteriorating heart condition. articulated her situation well when she wrote: The tiny piece of paper that we call a visa cost nine hundred rubles in Soviet money. But nobody has established the measure of suffering that must be paid for that tiny piece of paper. On October 19. 1979.
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