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Американские собратья требовали положить конец принудительной ассимиляции советских евреев и позволить им свободно эмигрировать из СССР. «Отпусти народ мой!» - с новой силой опять грянуло на всех языках! Наряду с гражданами Америки, в митинге участвовали израильтяне, граждане Латинской Америки и другие. Были там и политики, и раввины, и священники, и бывшие «отказники», и другие сочувствующие. \"Отпусти мой народ!\" зазвучало опять на разных языках.</p>\n\n<p><strong>Few of us know and remember, that 25 years ago, on December 6, 1987 in Washington, D.C., on the eve of a historic meeting between Mikhail Gorbachev and President Reagan, 250,000 people went out into the streets to express solidarity with the Jews of the Soviet Union. 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