Id like to thank the National Conference on Soviet Jewry and the Union of Councils for Soviet Jews for helping to organize the annual Congressional Fast and Prayer Vigil. This is the third year that I am participating on behalf of Vladimir Feltsman and his family and I pray that this will be the last time. Vladimir is a worldrenowned pianist who has been forced into obscurity as a result of his desire to emigrate from the Soviet Union. Congress conducts this annual vigil because the United States is the acknowledged leader of the free world and as such we have a duty to maintain the tradition of freedom. in our country and abroad. Our system of democracy is a blessing. and it is also an obligationthe obligation to see that all human beings have the opportunity for equal freedom.
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