General Jaruzelski has sought to extinguish the free spirit of the Polish workers. denying them the right to strike as well as imposing stringent control with respect to personal travel and communications. It is important that we recognize the influence of the Soviet Union in these and other violations of human rights. The Soviet Union. despite its professed support of both the Universal Declaration on Human Rights and the Helsinki Final Act. persists in its efforts to suppress religion and restrict emigration. While the Soviet regime has instituted repressive policies of control against Catholics. Protestants. and Muslims. it has been particularly harsh with respect to Soviet Jews. As a result. Soviet Jewry. today. faces the bleakest circumstances in more than a decade. Emigration continues to be effectively denied to Jews and members of other national and religious groups in clear violation of the Universal Declaration and the Helsinki Final Act. In addition. the authoritarian leaders of the Soviet Union have attempted to quell any form of dissent. imprisoning thousands of human rights activists in forced labor camps. Soviet hegemony. meanwhile. has served to proliferate these policies in other nations. Elsewhere. the Romanian Government recently announced its decision to impose exorbitant education taxes on Romanian citizens who wish to emigrate. The proposed tax would block the emigration of thousands of Romanian citizens who have applied for permission to leave that nation. In Afghanistan. for example. the Communist regime. under the Soviet puppet Babrak Karmal. has tried to crush the freedom and nationalism of the Afghan people. Thousands of innocent men. women and children have been executed or tortured by the military authorities.
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