During that visit many Soviet officials tried to assure us that their policy toward Soviet Jews was fair in all respects. Clearly. those assurances were not accurate. Consider the facts: In the year following our meetings in Moscow and Leningrad. those very same officials permitted only 1.314 Jews to emigrate from the Soviet Union. less than half the number allowed to leave in 1982. In the year following those meetings a vigorous clampdown on the practice of Judaism was put into place. In the year following those meetings. officially sanctioned antiSemitism. frighteningly similar to the organized persecution of Jews under the last Czars. increased at an alarming rate.
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