Speech #980107571

The brutal treatment of its Jewish citizens over the decades is a moral outrage to all humankind. Despite the Soviets signing of socalled human rights documents with varied Western nations. the vise around the neck of Soviet Jewry is tightening. Soviet Jewish emigration is at an alltime low. with only 2.688 Jews allowed to leave that nation in 1982 compared with over 51.000 in 1979. This years emigration figures are indeed dismal. So far. the 1983 emigration totals are only half those of 1982. What we are witnessing is the most blatant attempt to restrict the movement and religious and cultural activists of Jewish people since the era of Nazi Germany. We can only assume that it is the deliberate Soviet policy to break the will and spirit of Soviet Jewry.