KGB prevents Jewish refuseniks meeting Reagan

Title

KGB prevents Jewish refuseniks meeting Reagan

Genre

News report; Interview

TX Date

28 May 1988

Year of production

1988

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Duration

00:03:39

Description

Eve Conway reports on the KGB allegedly stopping Jewish dissidents in Leningrad meeting US President Ronald Reagan during his visit for the Moscow summit despite them receiving a personal invitation. Includes interviews with Jewish refuseniks Rayald Zerlikernok(?) and Elena Kis (audio poor); Joy Simpson of the Woman’s Campaign for Soviet Jewry in London who sent flowers and a message to the wives of the USA and USSR presidents to protest.

Contributors

Eve Conway; Joy Simpson; Rayald Zerlikernok(?); Elena Kis

Keywords

Political protests; USSR; Jews; Civil and political rights; Intelligence service; Ronald Reagan; Emigration; Peaceful protest; Political dissenters; Moscow; Mikhail Gorbachev; Leningrad; Glasnost; Nancy Reagan; Raisa Gorbachev; Religious disrcrimination

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