WORLD IN BRIEF : SOVIET UNION : Nearly Half-Million Emigrated in 1990
From Times Staff and Wire Reports
Nearly half a million people left the Soviet Union last year, shattering previous records, with more than 90% of them going to Israel or Germany, the Interior Ministry said. The government said 452,000 people left the country, including 271,000 Jews bound for Israel. An additional 141,000 chose to move to Germany, many of them ethnic Germans whose families had been displaced by dictator Josef Stalin. Only 2.9% of the emigres, or 13,100, went to the United States.
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