Shamir urged the US government to stop granting refugee visas to Soviet Jews, persuading it that they were not refugees because they already had a homeland in Israel, and were only moving to the United States for economic reasons. He also termed the emigration of Soviet Jews to the United States rather than to Israel "defection", and called the issuing of US refugee visas to Soviet Jews when Israel was already willing to take them in "an insult to Israel". In 1989, a wave of Jewish emigration began from the Soviet Union after the Soviets allowed their Jewish population to emigrate freely. In October of that year, the US agreed to his requests, and stopped issuing refugee visas to Soviet emigrants. Subsequently, Israel became the main destination of Soviet Jewish emigrants. Over one million Soviet immigrants would subsequently arrive in Israel, many of whom would have likely gone to the United States had Shamir not pressed the US government to change its policy.
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Date: 2015-05-22 08:57 pm (UTC)там очень сильно обращают внимание на всякие зарубежные дела чиновников. прямо это больной вопрос.
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Date: 2015-05-22 09:00 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2015-05-22 09:03 pm (UTC)все прекрасно понимают, что в США и той же Канаде, Швейцарии, Австрии жить лучше и проще. но "мы один народ, земля обетованная, кто если не мы" и тп
поэтмоу живем там, где жить не так уж и хорошо. платим налоги, огромные налоги на машины и труд. и так далее.
поэтому и русским не надо давать статус беженцев, все логично
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Date: 2015-05-22 10:16 pm (UTC)