Mikhail Agursky, a Moscow activist and cybernetics engineer, reported that the tenth volume of the Great Soviet Encyclopedia published recently contains an article about Israel of great significance. In a telephone conversation with the Student Struggle for Soviet Jewry, Agursky said:
“The borders of Israel are outlined there (in the encyclopedia) as those set down by the United Nations in 1947. The Soviet government is known to be making efforts to implement the decision of the UN Security Council of November 22, 1967. On examination, the Soviet government recognizes Israel as having the borders she held just prior to June 5, 1967. Yet the map of Israel published in the encyclopedia raises grave double about the sincerity of the position of the Soviet government. If it is a mistake, the competent Soviet bodies must reject the map as the wrong one.”
In another development, the SSSJ reported that in a 3000-word article in “Mczhdunrodnaya Zhlzn.” V: Bolshakov assaits “international Zionism” and its “slanderous campaign” of “lies about the persecution of Jews in the Soviet Union.” The article the SSSJ stated, shows sensitivity to protests in Western countries.
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