Reports out of Moscow have indicated that for the past 3 months the Soviet Union has been conducting a major crackdown on dissidents. This action is partially a cleansing operation before the Moscow Olympics. but more importantly. it is directed at silencing those who would have been the most outspoken critics of the brutal invasion of Afghanistan. These reports further indicate that more than 40 people have been arrested or tried for the nonviolent exercise of their human rights. These dissidents represent a wide range of groups within the Soviet Unionhuman rights monitors. religious believers. would be emigrants. campaigners for rights of national groups and members of independent trade unions. Mr. Speaker. as one can see.
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