Dr. Gluzman reported that KGB agents had told him that he would never be allowed to leave the country. In the past. it has been an unwritten tradition that once a dissident serves a sentence. he or she is allowed to emigrate. However. this general rule has not held recently. For example. Ida Nudel was recently released from exile and allowed to return to Moscow. but she has been told by officials at the Ministry of Internal Affairs that her emigration to Israel is unlikely. This is probably part of the disturbing trend of increasing harassment of the Soviet Jewish community and plummeting rates of emigration. Another major complicating circumstance is the fact that the former husband of Dr. Gluzmans wife is challenging her custody of their child.
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