Hopefully. the voices of concerned men and women throughout the world have been heard. and the appeal hearing which has been scheduled for tomorrow by the Supreme Court of the Russian Federation will overturn. or at least decrease the severity of. the sentences. But the real issueone which the just completed trial and the forthcoming trial signalis the cultural and political oppression being visited upon Soviet Jews. For many of them. their chief desire is to emigratethat is what is really the moving force behind these trials. In large part. this desire stems from the repression which the Soviet Government exerts against them. The trials dramatize the plight of some 3 million Soviet Jews. whose cultural heritage is being destroyed and whose desire to live as Jews is being stifled. Soviet Jews must be freed. the Soviet Government must Ict those who wish to emigrate do so. and let those who wish to live as Jews. in Russia. do so. I urge that the House of Representatives make its voice heard by passage of the resolution which I have today introducedHouse Resolution 1320. This resolution is a successor to House Concurrent Resolution 30. which I introduced on the first day of the 91st Congress "to express the sense of Congress against the persecution of persons by Soviet Russia because of their religion." The resolution which I have introduced today condemns the religious persecution holding sway in the Soviet Union. urges the Soviet Union to permit the free exercise of religion and the pursuit of culture by all within its borders. and urges that the Soviet Union allow those citizens who wish to emigrate to do so. The repression being visited upon the Jews of Russia evokes the most terrible memories of the recent past. This time. the world must immediately make eminently clear that antiSemitism is the foul disease of depraved minds. and that any government which cultivates or abets that disease is itself depraved.
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