She was branded in the local press as a lunatic. a dangerous counterrevolutionary. and a criminal. many of those who read the press reports threatened her with violence. But she would not stop her work. In 1978. she hung a banner outside her apartment window that read: "KGB give me my visa." That bannervisible to visitors and journalists from the Westwas a message to the rest of the world that the Soviet Government could not tolerate. It was a message of individuality and defiance. neither of which is supposed to exist in the socalled workers paradise. Ida Nudel received a trial. of course.