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On the recordJune 5, 1996
And perhaps the gentleman could tell me, has there every been any condition on Boris Yeltsin to own up to the terrible genocide imposed by the Stalin regime against 30 million Russian people and perhaps no telling how many Polish people and other people throughout the CIS today?
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Edward Livingston
Louisiana

Editor's note · Context

Questioning Boris Yeltsin's acknowledgment of historical genocides during a discussion.

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