Brezhnevs death. there came on the scene a new Soviet leader. Mr. Andropov. and many of us. perhaps all of us. probably optimistically had hoped that there would be a period of thaw. and that more people would be allowed to emigrate and that the excesses of the Brezhnev regime might be curtailed and not repeated under Mr. Andropov. What happened. of course. was very clear. That hope was dashed very quickly. Not only were there refusals of exit visas. there came a new device. final refusals. cutting off all hope that an individual might be permitted to leave. There was organized an antiZionist committee that had the audacity to tell the world that everybody in the Soviet Union who wanted to leave had already left when there are 400.000 or 500.000 or more individuals that I and many others in this country believe would leave tomorrow if they had the opportunity to leave. Antisemitism was stepped up. and the programs went right into the schools of the Soviet Union and against small children.
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