We in the West give voice to these people struck silent by Communist oppression. There are those who have spoken for themselves. Since 1945. 250.000 refugees have escaped each year into free Berlin. With so great an exodus. can it even be believed. for one solitary moment. that the peoples behind the iron curtains are contented and willing subjects? Indeed. the flow of gifted men and women and skilled workers into West Germany has spurred Khrushchev to create a crisis. for this steady stream of refugees reveals the weakness. the barrenness. the stifling atmosphere of life under the Soviet heel. It is the irony of this age that Communist oppressors talk so glibly about their support of anticolonialism. when they. themselves. are in fact and in deed the strongest practitioners of colonialism existing today. Such is "the tribute that hypocrisy pays to virtue." Let it be said to these 100 million. again. and still again. "you are not forgotten."
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