One day. some of these children will make decisions affecting world peacedecisions based on dangerous illusions formed by this type of vicious propaganda. We must use the forum at the Madrid Conference to express our outrage. I also wish to condemn the arrest and imprisonment last week of Viktor Brailovsky. a leading figure in the Jewish emigration movement in the U.S.S.R.. on charges of "defaming the Soviet state and the public order." Mr. Brailovsky has acted as a contact point for information on emigration from Russia and has edited an underground journal. "Jews in the U.S.S.R.." which ceased publication in 1979. His arrest was the only way Soviet authorities could control his indefatigable commitment to the plight of tens of thousands of Jews who wish to leave the Soviet Union. These incidents are not the exception. but rather the rule today in the Soviet Union. Since 1977. the Soviets have continually reneged on their human rights pledges. Hundreds of human rights advocates have been imprisoned. thousands of visas have been denied. Indeed. the Commission on Security and Cooperation in Europe. in its report to Congress. notes that in 1979. Soviet authorities began the most massive campaign against human rights activism in the last decade. if not since Stalins death.
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