The authorities in the Ukrainian city of Kiev are “very frightened of world public opinion,” according to a Jewish activity there. “They do not want the world to know what is happening to the Jews in Kiev, “Mikhail Radomylski reported to the Student Struggle for Soviet Jewry here by telephone. The report came in the wake of a series of detentions of Jews outside the Kiev synagogue and in a new report that a KGB (secret police) agent told Radomylski and other Jewish activist, Boris Krasniy:
“Do not struggle for rights to depart for Israel. Do not give out any events of Kiev to anyone else.” Jews will be allowed to go to Israel, the KGB man reportedly said, “when you behave well.” In another development, the SSSJ said 49 Moscow Jews asked the Municipal Department for People’s Education to initiate general courses in Hebrew, which has “wide cultural significance” and is “the language of our people.” The writers criticized the government’s “artificial obstacles” in the way of this end.
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