On the cusp of the Soviet Union's collapse in the late 1980s, tens of thousands of Soviet Jews were granted permission to leave, only to find that America was no longer a welcoming destination. In 1988, American policy shifted, stranding thousands of Soviet Jews in Italy, leaving them stateless.
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Tens of thousands of Soviet Jews, who had been granted permission to leave the USSR in the late 1980s, were met with a harsh reality when they arrived in America, only to find it was no longer the welcoming destination they had long anticipated.
