In the end of course. and despite this harsh treatment. these two French citizens shall be allowed to leave. The same cannot be said for Soviet Jewsfor whom the freedom to leave never comes and the harsh treatment never ends. Jewish emigrationprotected by both the International Declaration and the Helsinki accordsamounted to fewer than 1.000 individuals last year. This represents a truly dramatic decline in Jewish emigrationfrom 51.320 in 1979 to just 896 in 1984. And it means that the Soviet Union has virtually closed its borders where Soviet Jewish citizens are concerned. ine refusal to allow its people to leave heir country is a characteristic the Soviet state shares with the Czarist regime it overthrew. Russians have never enjoyed freedom of movement.
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