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Diploma tax

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243: 95:. The findings were surprising: the vast majority of the Jews applying to visas were not educated professionals but sales clerks and people of minor trades. In 1972, of about 29,000 emigrants, only 13.5% had university diplomas, and only 30 persons had 233: 27:
on would-be emigrants who received a higher education there. It was introduced in August 1972. The professed justification for the tax was to repay state expenses for public education, but the measure was designed to combat the
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was against the repeal and argued that it would look like a sign of weakness. The same day, it was eventually announced that the diploma tax would remain "in the books" but would not be enforced.
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Brezhnev, demonstrating his knowledge of the internal works of the American politics, mentioned Jackson-Vanik when he argued the repeal of the tax, apparently trying to prevent the amendment.
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ordered the KGB to study the Jewish emigration to make a decision on the issue of the diploma tax. The report was presented to
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Under the international pressure, the Soviet government abolished the tax. The declassified
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on March 20, 1973, just before the introduction of the Jackson-Vanik Amendment in the
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issued a public statement that condemned it as a "massive violation of
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is an informal reference to the one-time payment imposed in the
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Chapter 26: Налог на образование и Поправка Джексона-Ваника
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archives recount the process leading up to the decision.
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Index

Soviet Union
brain drain
growing emigration of Soviet Jews
West
Moscow State University
roubles
United States
Nobel laureates
human rights
Jackson–Vanik amendment
KGB
Leonid Brezhnev
Soviet Politburo
US Congress
kandidat nauk
doktor nauk
Ph.D.
Yuri Andropov
Departure tax
Expatriation tax
Reich Flight Tax





"Declassified KGB Study Illuminates Early Years of Soviet Jewish Emigration"
The Forward
«А кого мы не хотим выпускать, мы не должны выпускать»

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