Dana Rohrabacher: “I join with my friends today from Illinois and Ohio in supporting the freedom of the Baltic peoples and in memorializing…”

“I join with my friends today from Illinois and Ohio in supporting the freedom of the Baltic peoples and in memorializing the infamous Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact. The Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact is an historic reminder that the forces of evil and tyranny are inevitably attracted to one another. In a world of nazism and communism six decades ago, some unfortunate people in the West, unfortunate because of their wishful thinking, thought that they could play one evil off against another and thus did not just simply state to the world and join in solidarity with the other free people against evil itself. It did not work, and this compromise with evil, trying to play the Nazis off against the Communists and the Communists against the Nazis, led to a world conflagration that destroyed much of the planet and took up to 100 million lives, and, of course, what we saw ending that wishful thinking was an alliance between the Communists and the Nazis. Today we remember the Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact and declare there is no compromise with evil and tyranny. Consistent with that we focus on the Baltic nations. I recently traveled through Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania. The people there for the most part are successful in their transition out of Communist tyranny. They are showing their Russian neighbors that democracy, free enterprise and the aspects of our Western society work, and the people of the Baltic States now enjoy prosperity, peace and freedom.”