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The Russians have discovered that their regime destroyed all their moral values, along with their cultural and religious in- stitutions: "People aren't ready to take responsibility for their own history. It's mother nature that the scapegoat becomes the Jews. "I am not optimistic," he says. "I think this strong chauvinist nationalism, with deep undercurrents of anti-Semitism, will be strong in the years to come." Vladimir Slepak, another well-known former refusenik who recently visited the Soviet Union to attend the first Soviet Jew- ish Congress, was alarmed by the atmosphere he en- countered. "In the two years since I emigrated from the Soviet Union, there have been many changes — and all for the worse," he said in Lon- don last week. Consumer goods were scarcer than ever, "everyone is angry and nervous, and no one believes in the future." In this climate, Russians were turning on the "traditional scapegoats," said Slepak, a scientist who waited 17 years before being granted a visa to emigrate. "I met many Jews who had previously not thought of emigrating or who had even been actively opposed to it. Now they have decided to leave. I personally received 200 requests to leave." There is indeed little doubt that the thousands of Soviet Jews now pouring into Israel, unlike the ideologically motivated "refuseniks" of the '70s, are being propelled into their uncertain new lives by the push of anti-Semitism rather than the pull of Zionist fulfillment. A measure of Israeli con- cern about the fate of Soviet Jews is that special dispen- sation has been granted for them to fly out of the Soviet Union whenever the oppor- tunity presents itself, even on the Sabbath. And, despite the official ban on Sabbath flights by Israel's national carrier, El Al, special dispensation has been granted to Israeli air crews to operate such flights. Yet another sign of the times was provided last week by Mark and Louise Puzis, who decided not to wait for months to get a flight out of the Soviet Union. Desperation bred daring: They simply loaded Vladimir Slepak themselves and their two- month-old baby into their Soviet-made Lada automobile and drove from the Ukraine to Israel, trading vodka for gas along the way. Says engineer Victor Savitsky, who had to cool his heels for four months before he could even buy plane tickets to Israel for himself, his wife and tiny daughter: "What I can't believe is that any of my Jewish friends have stayed behind." ❑ Germans See Few Convictions West Berlin (JTA) - West German State Prosecutor Adalbert Rucker now be- lieves it is almost impossible to get a Nazi war criminal convicted for crimes corn- mitted nearly a half century ago. The federal investigation offices in Ludwigsburg con- tinue to amass evidence and prepare charges against in- dividuals, he said. But very few Nazis are ex- pected to be charged this year, and it is highly im- probable that war crimes charges will be filed in future years, the prosecutor said. He spoke after the screen- ing here of a Paramount newsreel on Nazi war criminals and death camps, which was first released to theaters on May 5, 1945, at the end of World War II. The documentary appeared in a film festival.