We are all by now familiar with the plight of Yelena Bonner. though it is impossible to know the details of her persecution. Her plight highlights the narrowminded repressiveness of the Soviet regime. Over the past few years. this regime has taken steps to worsen the already miserable conditions of Jewish life in the Soviet Union. The massive emigration which was regarded as a hopeful sign in the seventies has slowed to a trickle. The authorities have embarked on a new antiSemitic campagn. which brings to mind the horrifying "Doctors trials" of the fifties. We in the West are sickened at the inhumanity and cynicism which is revealed by the Soviet Unions policy regarding its Jewish community.
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