Mr. Speaker. it has again come to my attention that a Russian refusenik. Viktor Brailovsky. a world renowned scientist. has endured serious hardships and undue suffering after making a formal request for permission to leave the U.S.S.R. and emigrate to Israel with his family. Their first request came in October 1972. and in January 1973. the Brailovskys received their first refusal. Viktor lost his teaching position at Moscow University in 1973. and subsequently joined a scientific seminar for unemployed Jewish scientists awaiting permission to emigrate. In 1976. the Soviets used a common tactic of granting permission to Viktor to emigrate. but he refused to leave without his wife and children. Since 1972. he has been harassed repeatedly with several arrests and home searches. The searches resulted in the confiscation of books on Jewish culture and history.
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