Who can these peaceful people count on if not us? The Soviet Union desperately seeks to be a great power and leader in the world. Yet it refuses to act responsibly and in a humanitarian manner when it imposes such hardships on a minority people who pose no challenge to the state. Despite being a party to the Helsinki accords of 1975. the Soviets continue to defy the international community by making Jewish emigration virtually impossible. Is this the behavior of a respectable state? I submit not. It is. however. another tragic example of the contradiction of Soviet goals and realities.
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