Rubuta ci gaba don wannan sakin layi - Shirin rediyon Mandel a KPFA an yi masa lakabi da "Soviet Union: kallo mafi kusa" Har zuwa farkon shekarun 1970, Mandel ya kasance mai goyon bayan muryar Soviet na 1968 da aka kai wa Czechoslovakia
a wannan shirin. A cikin shekarun 1970 da 1980 ya yi watsi da kasancewar mulkin mallaka na anti-Semitism a Tarayyar Soviet, duk da shaidar da yawa daga Soviet emigres a Bay Area da masu adawa kamar wanda ya lashe kyautar Nobel Joseph Brodsky; ya saba da shi a lokacin watsa shirye-shiryen KPFA shi ne "Soviet Union 100 ne da ke zaune tare da jituwa". An ci gaba da musun ƙin jinin Yahudawa na Soviet har zuwa littafinsa na 1985 "Soviet amma ba Rasha ba: Sauran Al'ummomin Tarayyar Soviet" wanda ya yi iƙirarin cewa mafi yawan kashi 10% na yahudawan Soviet za su so su bar Tarayyar Soviet. Kimanin yahudawa 290,000 ne suka bar Tarayyar Soviet daga 1970 zuwa 1988, lokacin da aka takaita ƙaura amma sama da 224,000 suka bar 1990 kadai, shekarar farko da aka ba da izinin ƙaura.