Word: emigree
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Increasingly during her last year in the West, Svetlana suffered from bouts of depression. She was haunted by her mother's suicide; as a child, she had evidently perceived it as a punishment. "My mother shot herself on the night of Nov. 8/9," she wrote to a friend in Britain...
Though Svetlana was manifestly troubled, there was little to indicate that she might be tempted to return to the Soviet Union. Her loathing for the regime was undiminished. In 1984, she published in India a sharply anti-Soviet volume of memoirs titled The Faraway Music. "Svetlana's hatred for Soviet...
When Daphne is raped in mysterious circumstances, the brutal Merrick seizes on the opportunity to arrest and torture Kumar. While Kumar languishes in jail, the story follows Merrick to another posting, and to a potential odd coupling between another Englishwoman, Sarah Layton (Geraldrne James), and an Indian, Ahmed Kasim (Derrick...
The Hillel sponsored demonstration-featured speeches by Dershowitz and Soviet emigre Mira Khmelnitskaya and centered on the plight of a hospitalized refusenik Nadezha Eradkova.
Khmelnitskaya and Regina Olshen '85, a recent emigre attending the rally, agreed that the situation for Jews in the USSR has deteriorated. Khmelnitskaya, a personal friend of Fradkova, gave an emotional account of her history.