Jewish emigration from the USSR tell to the lowest level of 1980 in May when only 1976 Jews reached Vienna. According to the Student Struggle for Soviet Jewry and Union of Councils for Soviet Jews, this was 52 percent below last year’s monthly average exit 62 percent of the May exitees did not go to Israel.
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