The refusal of the Soviet authorities to accede to the ancient Jewish lament to "let my people go" is a monument to the short memories of the Soviets. Have they forgotten the major role that oppression of the Jews played in causing their own revolution. Yet even that oppression stopped at the point of holding as unwilling hostages the Jews who were damned if they stayed in their native land. Only Hitlers Germany twisted the screws to preclude emigration as vigorously as they precluded life. The Soviets seem not to remember how they condemned the German policy of Hitler. They stand in that awesome shadow of Hitlerism. however. as one contemplates the judicial coinage of the Leningrad trials.
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