Nashpitz was one of nine Jews who staged a peaceful demonstration outside the Lenin Library in Moscow carrying banners in support of freedom for Soviet Jews. Within 30 seconds the KGB forcibly broke up the demonstration and arrested Mark. He was sentenced to 5 years of internal exile in a remote Siberian village over 6.000 miles from Moscow for "disturbing the public order." When he returned to Moscow in June 1979. Nashpitz sought emigration visas and was again refused. On March 23. 1980. Mark and his pregnant wife. Ludmilla. were expelled from Moscow for the third time. He settled in Strunino but has been denied the opportunity to practice dentistry.
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