This years Solidarity march. which will be held May 2. issadlymore imperative than ever. The Government of the Soviet Union. despite the commitments it undertook in the Helsinki Final Act. the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. and even its own constitution. has in the past year pitilessly intensified its persecution of its Jewish citizens. The most obvious indicator is emigration. From an already low 21.471 in 1980. the number of Jews allowed to emigrate to the west plunged to 9.447 in 1981. And if the present rateunder 300 a monthpersists. 1982 will establish a new nadir in Jewish emigration from the Soviet Union. The precipitous drop recently prompted Leon Dulzin. chairman of the Presidium of the World Conference on Soviet Jewry. to speak of "beginning the struggle all over again." The denial of emigration. alas. is not the whole of the problem. Within the Soviet Union itself. the officially sanctioned campaign of antiSemitism continues unabated. Publications of all kinds. including childrens magazines. attribute the failings of the Soviet system to imagined Jewish.
Identified stereotypes
Accusation that Jewish people are blamed for the failings of the Soviet system.