Earlier this year. a fellow Virginian informed me of one such family in the Soviet Unionthe Uspenskiis. The Uspenskiis applied to leave the Soviet Union in July 1979. Prior to that. they had visited the West a number of times. and were accomplished academicians in the U.S.S.R. Not surprisingly. their request to emigrate was refused. They were excluded from further scientific and academic travels. and their articles were no longer published by the Soviet press. By December 1981. Mrs. Uspenskii had been fired from her job. and her husband demoted from his. Theirs is the typical story of Jewish life in the Soviet Union.
Identified stereotypes
The Uspenskiis' story is presented as typical of Jewish life in the Soviet Union.