MFN has come to symbolize something much more than just nondiscriminatory tariffs. MFN was the rallying cry for many groups and other human rights champions who fought for freedom on behalf of those trapped behind the Iron Curtain during the dark days of communism. MFN has come to symbolize a struggle for freedom of emigration. freedom of religion and human rights. MFN was the term the Romanian people knew when the United States finally took away nondiscriminatory trade status from Nicolae Ceasusescua dictator who was terrorizing his own people. bulldozing churches. turning Bibles into toilet paper. torturing political dissidents. and using those who desired to emigrate as bargaining chips with the West. When we took away MFN. the Romanian people heard about it on Radio Free Europe. MFN symbolized more than normal trading relations when the United States suspended Polands MFN status after it invoked martial law in 1983.
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