Mr. Speaker. on August 15 it was reported that the Soviet Union had put a price on the head of every educated Russian who wants to emigrate to Israel. In addition to the now "normal" $1.000 fee for emigration permits and other "necessary" forms. the Russian Government is demanding a ransom of from $5.000 to $25.000 for each Jewish person with a higher education who wants to go to Israel. This action is the same as Hitlers barbarism of trading Jews for trucks and Fidel Castros demands of ransom for the prisoners captured at the Bay of Pigs. It will create a class of 20thcentury slaves. who are forced to work in a country which despises them and which they want to leave. but cannot because they do not have the fortune to pay their own ransom.
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