Speech #990001770

Although those of us in the United States may be particularly thankful that 1984George Orwells year of Big Brotherhas come and gone. with our personal freedoms in this country maintained intact. the grim implications of that novel continue to manifest themselves in the Soviet Unions treatment of Anatoly and all other outspoken Soviet Jews. For those imprisoned and refused Jews of the Soviet Union. every year is 1984. and what we refer to as the Iron Curtain has become an iron wall. The doors of emigration have been slammed ..hut. where only 896 Soviet Jews were granted emigration visas to freedom during 1984. But none of those now imprisoned have come to symbolize the Soviet