These families have two hard choices: To remain in the Embassy. even though they are not wanted there: or to leave the Embassy and be escorted in the hands of the KGB back to their hometown in Chernogorsk. Siberia. some 2.000 miles away. For over 18 years these families have suffered through psychiatric hospitals. labor camps. orphanages. beatings. hunger. and the loss of their jobs for their request to secure permission to emigrate from the U.S.S.R. What was intended to be a brief consultation with American Emhassy officials on that June day in 1978 has instead turned into a nightmare for these seven Christians when one of their sons was dragged away by the Soviet guards at the entrance gates of the Embassy. They never intended to stay at the Embassy. they had rushed inside in the hone of insuring their sons safety as well as their own.
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