However. the Bolshevik government like its czarist predecessor. had no inten.. tion of giving up this rich breadbaskei. and sugar bowl to the cause of nationa.. independence and freedom. After 4. years of bloody fighting. Communist rule. one of unrelenting severity and harsh-. ness accompanied by deportation. geno-. cide. purges. was Imposed. It decimated Ukrainian intelligence and leadership. Thus the Ukraine. the largest of the captive countries. was the first to have the Iron Curtain lowered. Thus Communist Russia turned a fair land into a prison house. The Ukraine. through the immigrants who have come to us. has made a large contribution to our strength. our intelligence. our culture. They have found in our land the freedom and Independence denied them in their homeland. They are among the people ready to give the lie to Russian protests of sympathy for national independence and hypocritical protests against colonialism.
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