Mr. Speaker. I wish to join my colleagues in vigorously protesting the action taken last month by the Soviet Union against all potential emigrants. The imposition of a head tax based on education has created a de facto class of slaves--people who must scrape up an enormous ransom to leave a country which they do not want and which does not want them. Despite its application to all citizens. this latest Russian ukase is directed almost exclusively against Soviet Jewsa portion of the Soviet populace that has consistently tried to exercise the right of emigration. This unending harrassment of Soviet Jews must be opposed by all people who deplore mans inhumanity to his fellow man. For years Soviet Jews have pleaded for their basic rights of religion and culture.
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