Latvia. She has been denied permission to live there. and Soviet authorities still refuse to let her leave the country. What we see in this case and others like it is nothing less than calculated cruelty by a government committed to ruthless exercise of power instead of serving and representing its people. This is a government that punishes even modest dissent with imprisonment of Siberian exile. and when members of its captive population apply to emigrate. it treats them as criminals. Mr. Speaker. I am pleased to join my colleagues in this appeal for the freedom of Ida Nudel and to remind the House of what her case demonstrates about the character of the Soviet leadership.*
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