The names of such men as Nikola Petkov. of Bulgaria and Jan Masaryk. of Czechoslovakia should be engraved on the tableaus of those who held human freedom and dignity dearer even than life. Thousands died opposing the imposition of Communist regimes. Thousands more perished or suffered terribly in the years which followed when the new tyrannies were destroying all opposition. In some cases. large segments of the native population were deported to camps in the Soviet Union when that state unilaterally proclaimed that small historic nations were henceforth part of the Communist Empire of Moscow. Mr. Speaker. these events were not a tragedy in the sense of being caused by the actions of the small nations of Eastern Europe themselves.
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