NEW YORK (JTA)—Dr.
Zand, the Soviet Jewish professor
and activist who was fired last
r_nonth by the Institute for Eastern
Studies in Moscow, has been
threatened with expulsion from
the city police there for being un-
employed, reliable Jewish sources
reported here.
Soviet police have the authority
to expel persons who are "un-
productive, the source said.
Zand, 44, was arrested with
other Soviet Jews on March 26 at
the office of Prosecutor General
Roman A. Rudenko; all were sen-
tenced to 15 days in prison. Zand
was subsequently released after
staging a two-week hunger strike
that left him in a state of total
exhaustion. He has explained his
situation to the police and stated
that he is an invalid.
Meanwhile, Zand's daughter
Ina, a third-year medical stu-
dent at the Moscow Institute of
Medicine, has been expelled
from the school's Komsomol
(Communist youth organization)
for "treasonous" activity of ap-
plying for emigration permission,
the source said.
Additionally, the Komsomol ask-
ed the institute to expel her from
her classes, but she pleaded for
permission to complete the school
year so that she could be better
able to earn a living. She noted
that the Zand - family was now
living on the salary of her sister,
a nurse.
The Jewish sources said the in-
stitute's administrators found her
request laughable; but there is
no word as yet on their decision.
A plea on Zand's behalf was
made on the floor of the U.S.
Senate April 23 by Michigan's
Sen. Robert Griffin.
The Israel Broadcasting Service
placed a telephone call to Prof.
Zand in Moscow. Zand said "The
Jews of the Soviet Union will ob-
serve Memorial Day." He said that
many Moscow Jews lit candles
Tuesday night and plan to cele-
brate Israel Independence Day on
Thursday in the privacy of their
homes. Public assemblies for that
purpose are forbidden.
Mrs. Rebecca Aleksandrovich,
whose daughter Ruth is one of five
Jews awaiting trial in Riga on
charges of "subversive" activities,
reported in Tel Aviv that Soviet
authorities have eliminated all pos-
sible defense witnesses by granting
them exit visas.
Mrs. Aleksandrovich arrived
with her 18-year-old son Avigdor
on an El Al charter flight from
Vienna which brought another
large group of emigres from the
Soviet Union.
, Her report confirmed the fre-
quently expressed view that the
relative easing of Soviet visa
2olicies during the past two months
was intended to get rid of Jewish
activists and others who could em-
barrass the regime.
Others among the newcomers re-
ported that Soviet authorities are
once more tightening up on the
issuance of visas to Jews. They
said there was growing fear among
Russian Jews that emigration would
be cut down to a mere trickle.
These reports corroborated Jew-
ish sources in Vilna who claimed
in a telephone conversation with
Israeli relatives that fewer exit
vilas were being issued now than
a month ago.
The new arrivals told of many
families who received their papers
and sold their homes and belong-
ings as a consequence, only to get
official notice that their exit per-
mits were canceled.
Many knowledgable observers
here and abroad attributed the
spurt of Jewish emigration from
the Soviet Union last month to a
Desire by Soviet authorities to pro-
1.zct their image before and during
the 24th Communist Party Con-
gress early in April.
They said that once the congress
ended, th Soviets would revert
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to their earlier restrictive policies.
New reports seemed to bear out
this analysis.
One immigrant from Riga said
that during the party congress
the local director of the interior
ministry who was known for
his anti-Jewish attitude became
polite to Jews seeking exit per-
mits. Since the congress ad-
journed, he has resumed his old
behavior, the immigrant said.
Mrs. Aleksandrovich told news-
men at Lydda Airport of her own
family's dilemma. She, her hus-
band and son were granted visas
after her daughter was arrested.
Her daughter, 23, who is a nurse,
urged her mother to go while she
had the chance. The family de-
cided that the mother and son
would go to Israel while the father
remained in Riga for the trial.
When and if the trial will actually
take place remains a mystery.
Usually reliable sources said last
month that it would begin on April
15. But it failed to materialize and
no new date has been mentioned
since in any quarters. The new
arrivals included families from
Riga, Vilna, Tzernovitz and the
Georgian Republic.
Ilya Ripps, the Jewish student
from Riga who set himself on fire
in April 1969 in protest against
Soviet anti-Semitism, is still con-
fined in a Soviet mental institu-
tion, the Soviet Jewry Action Group
of San Francisco disclosed.
A tourist who recently visited
the Soviet Union reported that 23-
year-old Ripps has fully recovered
from his burns but has not been
allowed to leave the hospital, al-
though doctors have admitted that
he is perfectly sane.
Ripps was reported to be in good
spirits and has told visitors that
"the authorities will never be able
to break my will to fight for the
right to go to Israel."
SJAG also revealed that Boris
Kochubiyevsky, sentenced in 1969
to a three-year term in a Siberian
labor camp, was beaten by thugs
among the Siberian prison camp
detainees.
The Kiev Jew, whose sentence
caused worldwide protest, has
reportedly been asked to sign
documents renouncing his desire
to go to Israel. Jewish sources
report that he has refused to
bow to this demand.
The Soviet Jewish musician
Pinhas Dubrov, who composed the
underground song "Let My Peo-
ple Go !," has also been reported
beaten by unknown assailants,
who accosted him near his home,
according to the SJAG. Dubrov
was reportedly struck several
times by his assailants and taken
to the hospital unconscious. Two
weeks before this incident, he had
received an anonymous letter
threatening repercussions if he
would continue his struggle to emi-
grate to Israel.
Two Soviet Jews who petitioned
for the right to renounce their
citizenship and emigrate to Israel
face deportation to Siberia, reliable
sources reported in London.
Ludmilla Prussakova and her
husband, Valentin both lost their
jobs.
A letter they signed demand-
ing emigration rights was published
in the London Times on Feb. 25.
The sources said they -could be
sent to Siberia as "vagrants," a
term often applied by Soviet au-
thorities to persons fired for politi-
cal reasons.
Valentin Prussakov was dis-
missed six months ago when the
couple first applied for exit visas
and has been unable to find work
since then.
Last week, his wife was fired
from her job at Moscow's Progress
Publishers after she was de-
nounced by fellow staff members.
They branded her "an ideological
enemy and traitor to the mother-
land" and demanded that her
Soviet citizenship be revoked.
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THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS
16—Friday, April 30, 1971
Zand May Be Ousted From Moscow
Ironically, the couple got into
trouble originally for requesting
the right to renounce their citizen-
ship. They have received no reply
to date to their request that this
be linked to the issuance of exit
visas so that they could settle in
Israel.
Rigerman: Established Jewish
Groups Lax in Rallying Support
NEW YORK (JTA) —Leonid
Rigerman lashed out at the estab-
lished Jewish organizations for
what he called their "tragic" fail-
ure to rally American Jews to
demonstrate openly and constantly
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