It is designed. as the Washington Post pointed out yesterday. to protect the highest interests of the Soviet statethe need to deter economic crimes without shaking belief in the system itself. The United States should take an official stand on the Soviet Governments systematic policy of attrition against the 3 million Jewish citizens of the U.S.S.R. The main components of that policy are: First. deprivation of cultural rights. second. deprivation of religious rights. third. the antiJewish propaganda campaign. fourth. the scapegoating of Jews. fifth. discrimination in education and employment. and. sixth. refusal of the right to emigrate. It adds up to a policy of reducing the Jews to secondclass citizenship in the U.S.S.R.. of breaking their spirit and crushing their pride. It aims to shatter. pulverize. and gradually eliminate Jewish historical consciousness and Jewish identity.
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