An example of how Soviet policy is oppressing Jews is Victor Brallovsky. a cyberneticist from Moscow. Victor played a major role in foundering the samizdat. or underground. journal. "Jews in the U.S.S.R." and was a leader in its production until it was forced to cease publication in 1979. Victor. his wife Irina. and his son and daughter. originally applied to emigrate from the Soviet Union in October 1972. but they were told that only Victor and his son could emigrate. as Irina had knowledge of state secrets. The San Francisco Chronicle published a letter from Irina in 1980 explaining what the Brailovsky family decided to do. "After long and painful indecision. we decided that Victor would leave with our son while I remained behind with my daughter and aged mother. With this decision. we went to the visa office. But no visa was forthcoming. We wrote a new declarations. once again we obtained all the necessary papers. but these only seemed to disappear in the bureaucratic maze." After the Brailovskys applied for exit visas in 1972. their telephone and mail service was cut. their apartment was placed under KGB surveillance. and both Victor and Irina were fired from their prestigious jobs. On April 10. 1980. on the eve of a scientific conference organized by Victor and other Jewish scientists who had been fired from their jobs. Victor was arrested for being involved with "Jews in the U.S.S.R." Although he was later released. the surveillance continued.
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