Since that time many similar resolutions have been introduced by my colleagues in the Congress. and I commend the gentleman from New York who is the outstanding chairman of the Subcommittee on Europe of the Foreign Affairs Committee. for holding hearings on my bill as well as on other bills seeking relief from restrictions on Soviet Jews. The result of those hearings is the bill we have before us today. House Concurrent Resolution 471. which urges the President to call upon the Soviet Government to permit the free expression of ideas and the exercise of religion by all its citizens. to utilize contacts with Soviet officials in an effort to secure an end to discrimination against religious minorities. to request the Soviet Government to permit its citizens the right to emigrate from the Soviet Union to the countries of their choice. and to raise in the General Assembly of the United Nations the issue of the Soviet Unions transgression of the Declaration of Human Rights. particularly against Soviet Jews and other minorities. The religious. social. cultural. and legal discrimination against the Jews in the Soviet Union has been in evidence for hundreds of years. However. in recent times there has been a rebirth of cultural identity of Soviet Jews. and with this rebirth has come a greater willingness for selfassertion by many Jewish citizens of the Soviet Union.
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