Members of the SSSJ (Students Struggle for Soviet
Jewry) in the McGill University, Canada, organized demonstration in November,
1980 in front of the Aeroflot Agency in Montreal on behalf of refusenik Victor
Brailovsky who was sentenced by a Moscow court to three years of exile for
editing and publishing of a “Samizdat” magazine Jews in USSR. One of the
participants, Ellen Sossin holds a painted giant Aeroflot ticket for Victor Brailovsky. November weather with cold
rain and sleet didn’t stop demonstrators. Courtesy of Seth Vogelman, one of the
organizers and participants of the demonstration.
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