A leading Soviet newspaper, Komsomolskaya Pravda, has printed a number of letters purporting to have been written by Russian immigrants to Israel, depicting Israel as a land “full of suffering and sorrow,” where unemployment is rife people “go out of their minds” and immigrants “are dying of heat and hunger,” according to the New York Times.
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