Gennady has been applying to emirgrate since 1976. He hopes to join his sister and elderly parents who now live in Israel. His parents are ill. and want only to live to see their son. Gennady. because he applied to emigrate. now lives the tragic life of a refusenik. He cannot find work. he has no place to live and depends on friends for shelter. and he has been beaten by auxiliary police. The Soviet Government punishes Gennady for a desire to be reunited with his family by assuring that he Is an outcast in Soviet society and by denying him the right to leave.
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