It was widely assumed that official Soviet atheism resulted in discrimination of roughly equal intensity against Christians. Jews. and Muslims in the Soviet Union. Senator JACKSON was one of the first major figures in American life to recognize that Jews of the Soviet Union were singled out for systematic oppression far beyond that experience by adherents of other faiths. He swiftly concluded that Jews had little future in the U.S.S.R. He argued that liberty depended on emigration. The JacksonMillsVanik amendment brought the full force of U.S. trade policy to bear on the predicament of Russian Jews. Senator JACKSON was probably the most effective and forceful friend of Israel in Congress.
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