The Soviet Union is in violation of its responsibilities to human rights under no less than seven international agreements to which it is a party. In particular. the growing official harassment and denial of basic rights to Jewish citizens is a sobering reality. Soviet officials have virtually choked off Jewish emigration. That government has punished Soviet Jews applying for emigration with the loss of jobs. academic degrees. and professional stature. and with arbitrary arrest and imprisonment or internal exile based on trumped up charges. The Soviet regime has ruthlessly suppressed cultural seminars and Hebrew classes. Within the last year. that regime has increasingly actively promoted outright antiSemitic publications.
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