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Viktor came across anti-Semitism in 1979, when he was trying to enter an
institute. He alone had all excellent marks in his class, but he could not
pass his exams, because there was a check against his name on the list,
which meant he was not to enter. A man on the entrance commission told us
later that he could not give him an "A." My son went to Volgograd,
graduated from the Polytechnic Institute there, and returned to Kiev to
work in science. But after the Chernobyl accident, he and his family moved
to Volgograd. By that time he had been married and had a newborn son, who,
by the way, was born on the day of the Chernobyl accident - April 26, 1986.
It was too dangerous for a newborn to remain in Kiev due to the high
radiation level.
institute. He alone had all excellent marks in his class, but he could not
pass his exams, because there was a check against his name on the list,
which meant he was not to enter. A man on the entrance commission told us
later that he could not give him an "A." My son went to Volgograd,
graduated from the Polytechnic Institute there, and returned to Kiev to
work in science. But after the Chernobyl accident, he and his family moved
to Volgograd. By that time he had been married and had a newborn son, who,
by the way, was born on the day of the Chernobyl accident - April 26, 1986.
It was too dangerous for a newborn to remain in Kiev due to the high
radiation level.
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Ukraine
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matvey loshak