But six years passed. and he surrendered. But we still had to live until that day. We had a lot to go through before we reached it. We received an invitation (formal document required for application for emigration) from our relatives quite quickly. and on November 27. 1979. submitted to the Kiev OVIR (Emigration office) our first petition for repatriation. And three days lateron December 1a sobering shower of refusals poured onto the heads of thousands. Emigration was denied to very many people. but at that time not yet to everybody. And so we still hoped. And we were refused.
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