Ex-Soviet Jewish Dissidents Plan to Protest at Summit
A group of former Soviet Jewish dissidents said Sunday that they will demonstrate at the superpower summit in Washington next month to press for increased Jewish emigration from the Soviet Union.
The group, which includes Natan Shransky and Vladimir Slepak, said the main protest will be on Dec. 6.
The number of Soviet Jews allowed to emigrate has risen dramatically this year, with 6,251 leaving up to October, compared to only 943 in all of 1986.
Activists say hundreds of thousands of the Soviet Union’s 2 million Jews would emigrate if they could.
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