It is a tribute to the spirit and character of the people of Ukraine that today. after more than 40 years of ruthless oppression and exploitation by the new imperialism of Moscow. their aspirations for freedom and selfgovernment are unbroken and undimmed. The strength and depth of that spirit can be measured best against the record of efforts made by Moscow to break it. Those efforts include a manmade famine which took the lives of millions of Ukrainians. mass deportations. persecution of the intellectual and educated classes. cultural and spiritual genocide. Such storms of Communist tyranny have been broken on the Gibraltar of courage which has characterized life in modern day Ukraine. There are encouraging signs that the Communist empire over which Moscow presides is faced with political and economic problems for which tyranny and despotism have no answers.
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