I believe it is proper to focus on the failure of another world superpower to extend such freedoms of their peoples. In recent months. Soviet officials have lulled the whole world into believing there is a new openness and a change in human rights policies. But the record indicates that is far from the truth. Last year. for instance. only 914 Jews were permitted to emigrate from that country. compared with 1.140 in 1985 and 896 in 1984. Nearly 400.000 Jews in the Soviet Union have petitioned to leave that country. Of this number. more than 11.000 hold the status of refusenik.
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