VAK was transferred to the Jurisdiction of the Council of Ministers. Its chairman explained that applicants for higher degrees would be required to "combine a profound professional knowledge with a mastery of MarxistLeninist theory and with the convictions of an active builder of communist society." Apparently. under the current interpretation. Jews seeking to exercise the fundamental human right to leave a country do not display the required "convictions." Even worse. several scientists were told that they were deprived of their degrees for "unpatriotic behavior." that Is. applying to emigrate. The personal ramifications of degree revcation are profoundly burdensome and humiliating. Soviet Jewish scientists say that it can mean salary cuts. demotion. denial of access to libraries and laboratories and even job dismissal.
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