Yet another victim caught in the cruel web of Soviet domination and denigration is Dr. Viktor Brailovsky. Viktor Brailovsky has been trying to emigrate with his family since 1972. As usual. as soon as he requested permission to leave. the harassment. investigations. and proclamations that he was privy to state secrets resulted in firm denial of his request. The pattern of treatment that Dr. Brailovsky has received at the hands of the Soviet bureaucracy and the KGB has now become typical. and I suggest to my colleagues that we take a close look at what has happened to Viktor Brailovsky and his family since the decision to request permission to emigrate to Israel was reached. After the denial to their request came in January 1973. 4 months after application had been made. both Viktor and his wife. Irina. became involved in the Jewish emigration movement. and soon after Viktor organized the "Moscow Seminar of Jewish Scientists." Those Jewish scientists who had been refused permission to emigrate. and unemployed because of this. met together on Sunday afternoons. in the Brailovsky home. in order to discuss the various advances being made in their respective scientific area. Since none could do this alone. having limited access to scientific studies and journals. together they were able to maintain some kind of tie with the scientific community. Western scientists who were in the Soviet Union soon learned of these meetings. and the two groups were able to meet and discuss together.
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