Mr. Speaker. the statistics tell the story. Jewish emigration from the Soviet Union has plummeted in just 3 years. In 1979. 51.320 Jews were granted exit visas. Last year. only 9.447 Jews were permitted to leave the country to join their families in other parts of the world. For the many Members of Congress who work on behalf of Soviet refuseniks. the explanations for visa denials are always the same: The individual cannot leave the country because he or she has had access to military secrets. or their family arrangements on the other end are not satisfactory. or the denial is accompanied with no explanation. The real explanation is that there exists an antiSemitic bias in the upper echelons of the Soviet bureaucracy and that bias rears its ugly head during times of tension between the United States and the Soviet Union. Jews have always been the pawns in the much larger superpower game.
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Jews are pawns in superpower games and face anti-Semitic bias in the Soviet Union.