Evgeny. a computer engineer. ended his sensitive work with the Soviet company. Impulse Scientific Production Association. in 1978. He and his family waited 10 years from that date before applying for permission to emigrate. Yet in 1988 Evgeny was still considered a security risk. Thus began the long. frustrating process of applying and reapplying for permission to leave the Soviet Union. Evgenys son. Vladimir. received an exit visa in August 1989. but 2 months later found that he. along with his parents. would be unable to emigrate permanently until 1995. He used his exit visa immediately and left for the United States. Irna Pisarevsky. the wife of Evgeny. visited Vladimir in New York in November 1990 on a tourist visa. Meanwhile. the Ministry of Defense once again refused to lift Evgenys secrecy classification. Today. this family must cope not only with forced separation. but must live with the reality of rising antiSemitism in the Russian Republic.
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