There are so many stories and they continue to increase in direct opposition to the flow of emigreesas the number permitted to leave the Soviet Union slows to a trickle. the volume of people wanting to leave increases. In June of 1981. 182 Jews were permitted to leave the Soviet Union. a significant drop of 96 percent from the number permitted just 2 years earlier. This has caused great anxiety among Soviet Jews who. in the last decade. had come to believe that emigration. at least based on repatriation to Israel to reunify families. would continue at some respectable level. Yet more than 400.000 individuals remain in the Soviet Union despite their desire to leave that country. One of these individuals is Vladimir (Zeev) Shachnovsky. who first discussed emigrating to Israel In 1971. He had become active in the Jewish movement in 1968 and had taken part in preparing a series of Russian language Jewish publications.
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