Speech #530132419

To the contrary. we have a long road ahead of us as we continue to struggle for the fundamental rights that the Soviet Jews have long been denied. Today. a large number of my colleagues will be participating in the Congressional Prayer and Fast Vigil for Soviet Jewry. I would like to join with them in bringing attention to the plight of nearly 500.000 Soviet Jews who have expressed a desire to emigrate from the Soviet Union only to be flatly denied. I urge my colleagues to never allow the memory of the Leningrad trials to fade nor the courage of the Leningrad Eleven to be forgotten.*