Speaker. as a participant in the Second Congressional Fast and Prayer Vigil for Soviet Jewry. I rise in solidarity with my congressional colleagues to commemorate the 14th anniversary of the Leningrad trials. We remember the Leningrad trials today because the 11 men first sentenced to death or extended prison terms in 1970 were arrested for trying to hijack a Soviet aircraft in their desperation to emigrate. The harsh sentences these men received heightened international awareness of the ruthlessness with which the Soviets can treat their showcase "Refuseniks." But we often forget that for every Leningradtype case which receives international attention. literally thousands of unnamed Jewish refuseniks live in fear and deprivation in the Soviet Union. Russian Jews who apply
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