Session #99 · 1985–87

Speech #990073466

In conducting its ruthless war against Helsinki accords. as presented to the Afghanistan. the Soviet Union has used free people of the West by such emichemical weapons. bombed civilian targets. nent statesmen as Helmut Schmidt used ground and air forces to destroy vil- and Henry Kissinger was that we would assure the Soviet Empires masters that we would not challenge their legal right to their empire. while in return the masters of the empire pledged themselves not to be so heavyhanded. Ten years later. all but two of the Soviet Unions Helsinki monitors are in the gulag or in mental hospitals. While Jews were then emigrating at a rate of 50.000 per year. today the rate is about 900 per year. By general agreementand you can see It In all the papers of this country and Europethe masters hand is heavier than ever. .lom this we can draw .a host of lessons about the Soviet Union and about how we are compelled to deal with it. But today I want to draw Just one lesson about another matter. on which. there can really be no argument: the eminent Western statesmen who conceived the Helsinki accords for the West were eminently wrong.
Keywords matched
emigrating

Classification

Target group
Sentiment
Negative
Stereotyping
No
Confidence
95%
Model
gemini-2.0-flash
Framing
Humanitarian Victim

Speaker & context

Speaker
GORDON HUMPHREY
Party
R
Chamber
S
State
NH
Gender
M
Date
1985-07-25
Speech ID
990073466
Paragraph
#0
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