Churches are closed or destroyed. their members persecuted by the authorities. Millions are denied their national and ethnic rights. the victims of a brutal policy of russification. an attempt to strip them of their rich culture and heritage. Those who seek to emigrate are treated as traitors. they are often fired from their jobs. denied access to educational institutions. and ostracized by the State. An estimated 400.000 Soviet Jews have indicated their desire to join their families in the West. At the same time. the Soviet Government maintains that all Jews who wish to emigrate have been allowed to do so. Yet when Ida Nudel. an activist in the Jewish emigration movement. hung a sign reading "KGB give me my visa" from the window of her apartment. she was arrested and sentenced to 4 years internal exile. Fifteen years after filing to emigrate. she remains separated from her family residing in the West. Such human rights violations are not limited to the Soviet Union. however. Millions of East Europeans suffer a similar fate.
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