At once a characteristic and a major cause of the deterioration of EastWest relations. East bloc human rights conditions have taken a quantitative as well as a qualitative turn for the worse. The Soviet human rights record showed marginal improvement from 1975 through 1979. Despite many arrests. Soviet dissidents were active and effective. Ten unofficial Helsinki groups sprang up in the U.S.S.R. Soviet citizens could listen to Western shortwave radio broadcasts. Soviet Jewish emigration reached the record high level of over 50.000 in 1979. The Kremlin. bouyed by detente. adopted a somewhat more tolerant stance toward limited dissent. In 1980. the Kremlin embarked on a harsh new lawandorder campaignKGB style.
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