The Soviets have continued their widespread campaign to eliminate all religious observances. The Sakharovs remain in internal exile in Gorky. The mistreatment of dissidents of all types goes on. .Further. in a now well publicized and most distressing development. the number of individuals currently allowed to emigrate from the Soviet Union is at its lowest level in years. Only 327 Jews were allowed to leave the U.S.S.R. between October 1. 1984 and February 28. 1985. AntiSemitic propaganda abounds. There are reports that at no time since the reign of Stalin have there been more acts of official discrimination and repression directed against .Soviet Jews. I have spoken to this body before about the plight of a refusenik whom I have adopted. His. name is Yuli Kasharovsky and he has been attempting to emigrate from the Soviet Union since 1971. He has been denied work. placed under house arrest. imprisoned on trumpedup charges and even led away from his home in chains. His is not an isolated case.
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