Mr. Speaker. thousands. if not tens of thousands. of Russian citizens have been illegally prevented from leaving their country in search of a new and freer home. They wait year after year. repeatedly submitting their petitions to the authorities in Moscow. After submission of their petitions. they usually suffer from social ostracism and employment discrimination. without being allowed to emigrate from the Soviet Union. Among this unfortunate group of Soviet citizens. Ida Nudel stands out as a special case. Known as the "Guardian Angel" among Soviet dissidents. Ida Nudel has indefatigably worked to help her fellow Soviet Jewish dissidents. Despite substantial harassment and intimidation by the KGB. she refused to lessen or cease her efforts for Jewish prisoners of the state. whose only real crime was the very understandable desire to leave the Soviet Union.
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