Mr. Speaker. emigration from the Soviet Union is not free. Yet. in 1966 the Soviet Union signed the Universal Declaration of the Rights of Man. which affirmed the principle of free emigration. Since 1971. the Goldshtein brothers. brilliant physicists from Tbilisi in the Georgian S.S.R.. have applied for and been denied emigration visas. Grigory and Isai Goldshtein have long been active in the struggle for free emigration. In 1973 they took part in a Moscow hunger strike. When they returned home they found that their apartments had been searched and papers seized. In June 1973. preparations were underway to prosecute the Goldshteins on criminal charges for "defaming the Soviet Social System." The trial preparations were "suspended." but they may be reactivated.
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