President. I strongly support Senate Joint Resolution 65 to grant Raoul Wallenberg honorary citizenship. but that is largely a symbolic gesture and we can do more. We can substantively honor him and continue his humane work by bringing pressure to bear on countries that make a mockery of civil rights. routinely imprison dissidents. and create untold numbers of refugees. The worst examples of these abuses are found in Communist countries. especially the Soviet Union. which imprisoned Wallenberg for his work in assisting Hungarian Jews. The best way we can pressure totalitarian regimes is to expose and publicize the atrocities they commit. To that end. I have urged the Judiciary Committee. possibly under the jurisdiction of the Refugee Subcommittee. to commence hearings into the issue of treatment of dissidents and refugees in Communist world countries. Without some significant action on our part to expose the actions of the Soviet Union for which Raoul Wallenberg either died or still remains imprisoned. it is no more than making an empty gesture to grant Wallenberg honorary citizenship. We have been eloquently told by Alexander Solzhenitsyn.
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