Mr. Speaker. I rise in support of House Resolution 398. expressing the concern of the House on behalf of Alexsei Murzhenko and Yuri Fiodorov. and calling on the Soviets to release them from prison immediately and permit them to emigrate. In 1970. these two Ukrainian men. who had become acquainted during imprisonment in the 1960s for "antistate" activities. joined a group of Soviet Jews who planned to seize an airliner on the ground in Leningrad in an effort to escape from the Soviet Union. That attempt failed and Alexsei Murzhenko was sentenced. after trial for attempted treason. to 14 years of imprisonment and his colleague Yuri Fiodorov to 15 years of imprisonment.
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