Experiencing antisemitism in her job as an economist and in her life. Ms. Nudel applied to Soviet officials for permission to emigrate to Israel. Since 1971 her repeated requests for this visa have been denied. Disturbed by her persistent efforts to obtain this visa and to keep up to the morale of those forced in labor camps. the KGB constantly subjected Ida Nudel to harassment and intimidation. Gradually. this persecution took its toll and on June 1. 1978. she found that she was under house arrest. In protest. Ida hung a banner outside her Moscow flat that read. "KGB. give me my visa." The next day she was charged with "malicious hooliganism" and within 3 weeks she was convicted. By banishing Ida Nudel to the dreadful quarters she occupied In Siberia. Soviet authorities assumed they were silencing this voice of justice.
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