Many Soviet Jews love their country so intensely that they wish to remain and serve despite the impossible social context. Others. however. wish to rejoin the free community of mankind. and migrate to the Jewish homeland of Israel. or to a friendly Western nation. Almost every free nation of this world. including the United States. has made drastic modifications in its immigration policies in order to accommodate these refugees from Communist repression. But the Soviet Union. while treating their Jews as fourthclass citizens on the one hand. has been reluctant to let them go. on the other. Those lucky individuals and families who do manage to get emigration visas find themselves stripped of all their worldly possessions and even intimate personal belongings. Mr. Speaker. it is time that world opinion spoke up against this intolerable situation.
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