Tag #146756 - Interview #83417 (Genrikh Len )

After completing the post-graduate course in 1971, I encountered a serious problem of anti-Semitism. I became a candidate of engineering science then, but had not received an assignment for work. Such assignments were given to all post-graduate students who had defended their thesis at the same time with me, except for three persons – all Jews, and I was among them. We received the so-called ‘free employment,’ that is,  we were supposed to find work ourselves, and it was not an easy task for Jews in those times.