Twenty percent of the entire world Jewish population resides In the Soviet Union. The change in leadership therefore will affect not only Soviet Jews but the entire Jewish community. Some say that the situation cannot get much worse than it is. Emigration. after all. has already virtually stoppedonly 168 Jews were let out last month. But that is not so. The situation can get much worse. All dissident movements in the Soviet Union. except one. were decimated over the past decade by the KGB. Yuri Andropov was the head of the KGB. Jewish dissidents were the single exception. While they have been severely harassed. they have been allowed to survive.
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