For example. trials for alleged economic crimes took place between 1961 and 1964. in which nearly 60 percent of the hundreds of defendants. most of whom were executed. were Jews. a fact which the official Soviet press never allowed ts readership to forget. The trial which has most recently generated world attention is the December hijacking conspiracy trial in Leningradin which world pressure induced the Soviets to commite death sentences. Subsequent trials in Riga and elsewhere on trumpedup charges of economic crimes and disloyalty to the state have been used as instruments of harassment against Jews seeking to emigrate. In short. the Soviet Government has in the past 10 years conducted numerous mass trials for various crimes. always illdefined both factually and legally. in which Jews were conspicuous both by their disproportionate numbers and by the extraordinary publicity given to the vague charges against them. But it is not only the physical danger of being a Jew in the Soviet Union which we must acknowledge today.
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