I ask unanimous consent that the following case study describing this situation be printed in the RECORD. Although some Jews are being released from the Soviet Union under the reunificationoffamilies program promised by Premier Kosygin in December 1966. the intensity of the problem continues. Politically the Soviet Union is fearful of opening its emigration gates wide because of the huge exodus which would obviously occur. thus giving the Soviets a propaganda black eye. The second part of the political problem is that Russian Jews are beidg used as political pawns and hostages within the U.S.S.R. so as to increase tensions in the already volatile Middle East situation. With these pressures the lid is unfortunately being kept on one of the U.S.S.R.s most creative group of citizens.
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Russian Jews are described as one of the USSR's most creative groups of citizens.