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In September 1984, Lisa Paul, an American university scholar and nanny residing in Moscow, entered Inna Meiman's house on her behalf first Russian vocabulary lesson. Therefore commenced a two-year camaraderie and a battle for Inna's life. In Going swimming in the Daylight, Lisa chronicles her friend's struggle to shed her refusenik position, obtain a visa to America, and discover medical treatment on her behalf malignant tumor. Inna endured a perverse actuality as a resident of the Soviet Union: By refusing her agreement to emigrate, her administration denied her the ability to seek life-saving tumor treatment in European countries. In effect, Inna told Lisa, this refusal was a form of Soviet persecution of her and her man Naum, a member of the Moscow Helsinki Watch Group fighting with each other for human protection under the law in the U.S.S.R., for being Jewish. Spurred by outrage and the desire to help her friend, Lisa returned to america, vowing to do all she could to get Inna out of Moscow. She staged a being hungry strike, kept a press discussion, and galvanized American politicians to fight for Inna's liberty. All these attempts eventually persuaded Mikhail Gorbachev to issue Inna a visa in Dec 1986, when she finally stepped ft . on American soil. At a time when international strife looked like insurmountable and problems at home looked like paralyzing, this tale educated - and continues to teach - people all over that courage and willpower define a person and that folks have the energy to change the near future.
