I’m Not Fleeing, I’m Being Evicted
Arthur Hertzberg
1988
A gigantic queue in front of the American Embassy building. Today the 36,124th person has already been entered on the waiting list. The majority are Muscovites, but many have come from other cities—Tashkent, Kiev, Zhitomer, Vilna, Novosibirsk, Kishinev. At times, relatives from different cities coincidentally meet. To be sure, we are all accustomed…
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