In addition. antiSemitism remains a part of the military indoctrination program in the U.S.S.R.. and anitSemitic programs have been shown on primetime television. The case of Mikhail Kremen vividly portrays the plight of Soviet Jewry today. He first applied for emigration in late 1973. only to be denied permission on grounds of having been privy to state secrets. At his prior Job as an engineer at an electronics plant. he worked only on open. nonsecret projects. Mikhails life since 1974 has been marred by a series of hardships and harassment. In October 1976. Mikhail was brutally beaten and imprisoned for 15 days simply for inquiring of the Ministry of Interior why they had denied him permission to emigrate. In July 1978. during the trial of Anatoly Shcharansky. Mikhail was again imprisoned. The Kremens problems with Soviet authorities are not confined to Mikhail. By 1980. his wife. Galina. applied to emigrate. She was subsequently informed that she had no chance of receiving her visa before her husband. Sasha Kremen. Mikhails son. was arrested in November 1982 and sentenced to 4 years imprisonment in a labor camp outside Moscow.
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