Yet bitterly for the hopes of a persecuted people. this is not so. Indeed. Jewish emigration has dropped precipitously from 51.320 in 1979 to 1.314 in 1983a decline of 98 percent to the lowest level in 20 years. And the Soviet authorities blithely attempt to explain this by suggesting that none wish to leave. The veil of hypocrisy will not conceal Soviet social brutality. Even to seek to emigrate is to lose ones job and deny any educational opportunities to ones children while waiting for yearsand now perhaps foreverfor a chance only to leave. We have rightly commented strongly on the inhumanity of the Soviet destruction last fall of the Korean jetliner. But the persistent persecution of Soviet Jews is an even greater inhumanity through its systematic and relentless official efforts to destroy the culture and spirit of individuals who seek not to surrender their lives and souls to the Soviet State.
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