Mr. Speaker. the persecution of organized religion and deportation are two favorite techniques used by the Soviets in the communization of captive countries. The Communists recognize that the worship of God is a powerful force in any nation and that absolute control is impossible unless worship is supplanted by obedience to the doctrines of MarxismLeninism. Along with religious persecution the Communists concentrate on the mass deportation of other noncooperative groups. According to testimony received before the Select Committee on Communist Aggression of the House of Representatives. approximately 15 million people have been interned in slave labor camps behind the Iron Curtain. A tragic example of the methodical religious persecution practiced by the Communists was the campaign against the Roman Catholic Church in Czechoslovakia.
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