Vladimir Molokov. deputy chairman of an executive committee of the Moscow City Council came to the Brailovskys apartment to tell Irlna that the scientific meetings which were hosted by the Brailovskys for Jewish scientists would have to end. If she refused. Molokov told her the family would be banished from Moscow. On June 18. 1981. Victor Brailovsky was sentenced to 5 years of internal exile. He was convicted on charges of defaming the Soviet state in "Jews in the U.S.S.R." The only evidence presented at his trial were copies of two letters which Brailovsky allegedly wrote in 1976 to President Carter and the American Congress seeking support for Soviet Jews to emigrate. In September 1981. Victor arrived at his place of exile.
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