MRAZER. and PORTER for organizing this special order. This June marks the 14th anniversary of the infamous Leningrad trials. These trials. in 1970. were a historic event In Soviet Jewrys struggles to leave the Soviet Union. 11 people were charged with treason. their only desire was to emigrate from the Soviet Union. The impact of the trials and the cruel sentences were intended to frighten other Soviet Jews. heighten antiSemitism in the Soviet Union. and point out the vigilance of the Soviet judicial system. Although most of the 11 defendants are free now. they owe their freedom to the worldwide pressure that was brought to bear on the Soviets because of the cruelty and severity of the original sentences meted out to the defendants.
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