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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
Your country and several other free countries that are now behind the Iron Curtain have suffered oppression before.
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Harry Truman
Democratic · Missouri

Editor's note · Context

Remarks to Members of the American Action Committee Against Mass Deportations in Romania.

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