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Ronald Reagan: “We cannot and will not shirk our duty and responsibility to insist on the speediest end to subjugation, persecution, and…”

On the recordJuly 17, 1988
We cannot and will not shirk our duty and responsibility to insist on the speediest end to subjugation, persecution, and discrimination in the captive nations.
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Ronald Reagan
Republican · California

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Proclamation 5840—Captive Nations Week

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