This new partition ignores completely the existing ethnic groups and the union republics of the U.S.S.R.. as well as their national needs. This new administrative.partition is based on the aim to increase the might of the Russian empire and consolidate nonRussian nationalities into a single Soviet Russian nation by speeding the process of russiffcation. Because of the vicious cultural oppression. the occupation. and the domination of their homeland by the Soviets. many Bielarusian people emigrated and there are some 5 million of these enterprising and resourceful people and their descendants in our own Nation. They and other Bielarusian immigrants in the free world carry on the struggle for freedom. human rights. and dignity of their people and keep the peoples of the free world informed of the plight of the people of Bielarus. The Bielarusian Coordinating Committee of Chicago. Illinois.
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