Alexander and Paulina Paritsky and their two daughters are part of a larger group of Soviet "refusniks" who suffer persecution because of their beliefs and ideas. Mr. Paritsky has been fired from his job and faces the prospect of imprisonment if he can find neither employment or receive an exit visa. He is guilty of socalled antiSoviet crimes which include his alleged slander of the Soviet Union. Official harassment began in 1977 and has steadily worsened. Alexander Paritsky would like to emigrate from the U.S.S.R. to seek a better life for himself and his family. In a letter he wrote to me in August 1979. Paritsky spoke of some of the problems he and his family face in their current situation. including such things as press stories published in local newspapers which attacked his daughters.
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