The Haggadah's words were felt as KGB agents surrounded them. Later he would "celebrate" Passover in the Gulag.

A special Haggadah was written and distributed in the USSR in which the cry for revolution, not Jerusalem, was was brought to the table.

Leningrad, 1970. A group of young Soviet Jews who were denied exit visas, plots to “hijack” an empty plane and escape the USSR.