It is reported that another trial will take place in Leningrad when 20 Jews are to be tried for alleged antiSoviet activity. That prosecution should not be pursued. And equally important. the persecution being inflicted upon the Jews of the Soviet Union must end. and those who wish to emigrate must be allowed to do so. In part. the resolution before us meets these issues. Its particular concern is the recent trial convictions. And these must be addressed. But I hope that the more general problems of religious and cultural repression and freedom of emigration will also be dealt with by the House. On the first day of the 91st Congress I introduced a resolution which did in fact deal with this broad problemHouse Concurrent Resolution 30. Then. to highlight the urgency of the situation. I introduced on December 29 a successor to that bill. This new legislationHouse Resolution 1320provides: Resolved. That the House of Representatives condemns the persecution of any persons because of their religion by the Soviet Union. urges that the Soviet Union in the name of decency and humanity fully permit the free exercise of religion and the pursuit of culture by all Jews and all others within its borders. and urges that the Soviet Union allow those citizens who wish to emigrate to do so. I intend to reintroduce House Resolution 1320 in the next Congress as a fitting corollary to the resolution before us today. The repression being visited upon Soviet Jewry reminds us of the inhuman crimes perpetrated by Nazi Germany.
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