–spikes upward
…in response to, among other factors, US pressure…over 70,000 Soviet Jews allowed to exit. The collapse of the Soviet Union two years later in 1991 then opened–wide the gates for the exodus.
By 2008, well over a million Soviet Jews exit Russia, perhaps over two million. (Hard to get–a–handle on the exact reliable figures, even in this matter on which there was so much Jewish focus.)