But the Bolsheviks with a Russian army invaded the new nation. set up their puppet government and the territory went under the control of the Communist dictators. The familiar story of oppression and pillage followed. The resources of 250.000 square miles of fertile land. the mines and industry were diverted to the upbuilding of Communist power. Resistance was bitter and very costly. Massacre and famine followed. Millions were uprooted. sent to Siberia. to other Asiatic areas to face a bitter existence as slave laborers. And while we hear this talk of coexistence. let us remember the pattern of conquest. the ruin of peoples and of nations that have come under the Kremlins fist. In the United States today we have many Ukrainians who escaped the Communists.