Your country and several other free countries that are now behind the Iron Curtain have suffered oppression before.
Harry Truman: “Your country and several other free countries that are now behind the Iron Curtain have suffered oppression before.”
On the recordMay 27, 1952
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Remarks to Members of the American Action Committee Against Mass Deportations in Romania.
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