I am proud once again to participate in the Congressional Call to Conscience Vigil for Soviet Jewry. Independence and democratization are the just rewards for years of seeking basic freedoms in the Soviet Union and. in the past 5 years. dramatic changes have taken place that will alter the course of history. While these changes have produced favorable resuits such as the increase in the approval of emigration visas. they also pose significant challenges to the intemational community. One of these challenges Is to eradicate the appalling human rights violations that still occur in the Soviet Union. Despite efforts to call attention to the plight of Soviet Jews. there remains a foundation of institutionalized antiSemitism that has characterized the Soviet Unions treatment of its Jewish population since before the Stalinist era.
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Institutionalized anti-Semitism has characterized the Soviet Union's treatment of its Jewish population since before the Stalinist era.