The birthday of this heroine who has struggled mightily against the repression of the Soviet Union should be a happy occasion. But the world looks on with deep sorrow and regret at the continued imprisonment of this valiant woman by Soviet authorities whose action in this case elevates the shabbiness of religious discrimination to the posture of a governmental policy and lowers the right of free speech to the status of a common crime. Ida Nudels only transgression was to express her desire to emigrate to Israel. From the balcony of her apartment she draped a banner which read: "KGB. Give Me My Visa." The Soviet authorities denied her request fearing Ida Nudel and the many others like her. who. if allowed. would vote with their feet in the only honest election that nation has ever known. Despite her long history of serious heart and kidney problems and the necessity to travel long distances to receive medical care. Ida Nudel continues to live out her sentence of 4 years of internal exile in Siberia.
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