Mr. Speaker. again this year on the Ides of March. that unhappy day in classical history. we remember the arrest of Anatoly Shcharansky by the Soviet authorities for his attempts to live as a Jew and for his efforts to emigrate from the Soviet Union. Today we remind ourselves and the world that what happened to Shcharansky 7 years ago is far from an isolated event. but in fact stands as a symbol of the cruel and vicious treatment that hundreds of thousands of Jews receive at the hands of the Soviet state. We want the Soviet authorities to know that we will not forget Anatoly Shcharansky or other Jews that are forced to live in that dark and brutal society. And we want the Jews of the Soviet Union to be assured that the people of the United States and in free societies everywhere are thinking of them and working to help end their oppression.e
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