So they have had to quarantine Lev Shapiro and his family to a tiny apartment in Leningrad. There. however. the Shapiros do not waste away. They are incubating freedom. writing to people in the United States. even taking risks of inviting visiting Americans to their homeand we know how dangerous it is for any Soviet citizen. let alone a refusenik to extend hospitality to an American. Such people certainly deserve all that we can do to help them achieve their goal. The plight of the Shapiro family is just one example of the widespread repression inside the Soviet Union. Jewish emigration has slowed to a trickle. The Jewish community. along with the Estonians. Latvians.
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