Ronald Reagan actually said...

Throughout the Baltic States, Eastern Europe and Asia, now in Africa and Latin America, nation after nation has fallen prey to an ideology that seeks to stifle all that's good about the human spirit.

Context

Remarks on Signing the Captive Nations Week Proclamation

07/18/1982

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