Mr. Speaker. emigration from the Soviet Union is not free! The protests. arrests. and trials related to Soviet emigration policies continue. On December 1. 1970. Valery Kukui. a young engineer from Sverdlovsk. and nine additional Sverdlovsk Jews signed an open letter protesting the Leningrad death sentences. Kukui was subjected to harassment. and in March 1971. the Kukui family applied for exit visas to Israel. Kukul was arrested and in June 1971. was sentenced for 3 years to Novaya Labor Camp. In November 1971. his wife. Ella. visited him and found him ill. and his health has continued to deteriorate. In March 1973. Ella. who had managed to emigrate to Israel with their daughter wrote that neither she nor his parents had heard from Valery for almost 9 months and that she feared for his life. Free emigration is a human right which this Congress must affirm by passing the Vanik amendment in full. that is. by denying trade credits and guarantees to the Soviet Union. as well as mostfavored nation status. until the Soviet Union allows free emigration.
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