This can only contribute to isolating them further from any means of communication with the outside world. It had been hoped and rumored that the Soviets would improve their human rights record upon Gorbachevs rise to the premiership. However. using Soviet emigration as a barometer. no such improvement has materialized. According to the Coalition to Free Soviet Jews. only 51 out of 400.000 Soviet Jews who applied to emigrate were allowed to leave the U.S.S.R. in May. In all of 1984. emigration statistics show that only 896 Jews received visas to leave the U.S.S.R. We in the U.S. Congress must continue to protest Soviet violations of human rights.
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