posted on August 13, 2001 04:18:19 PM new
What these would have been for? I am thinking perhaps to remember someone?
One is gold and the other is silver colored On the top of the silver one is the name Yuri Brind and below that is printed USSR PRISONER OF CONSCIENCE
On the other one, the same thing except the name Boris Azernikov
(flip side)
and printed on the left of each on the flip side in caps... LET MY PEOPLE GO with Russian writting on the right. I find them so interesting and cannot find out anything about them. Anyone have any ideas? Worth listing? I found them while digging around some old crates ready to be dumped about a month ago. TIA
[ edited by furkidmom on Aug 13, 2001 04:19 PM ]
posted on August 13, 2001 05:46:56 PM new
I do not know dates but if I am remembering correctly at one time people wore these like the MIA bracelets from VIETNAM ERA -- these were for would be Jewish refuges wanting to go home to Israel but not getting their VISAS due to iron curtain rules.
posted on August 13, 2001 07:00:12 PM new
They were produced to show solidarity with the "refusniks". If my memory serves me correctly, once a Soviet Jew applied for a Visa to Israel, they would persecuted, lose their jobs, arrested on phony charges etc. Then of course the Soviets would deny the visas or stall and these people would be left with nothing.
http://www.mit.edu:8001/people/kasiski/chernyak.html
The above link is an example of one such refusnik.
