Marcy Kaptur: “I thank Congressman Murphy for yielding. You are such a refreshing, brilliant, positive Member of this House, and I…”

“I thank Congressman Murphy for yielding. You are such a refreshing, brilliant, positive Member of this House, and I thank the people of your State for sending you here. I thank you for all the citizens you are fighting for to bring new energy and to bring new vision to our country. Thank you so very much. Madam Speaker, I entitle my remarks this evening ``The World of Nations Holds a Moral Obligation''--and underline ``moral obligation''--``to Ukraine.'' Seventy years after World War II, let us provide some historical context in which to view Russia's illegal invasion of Crimea and potentially other nations. Scholars, historians, and diplomats still are piecing together the annals of the horrific slaughter and political oppression of the past century that has plagued the region we call Central and Eastern Europe. The full truth of what happened remains to be told as far too much was locked behind the Iron Curtain. Masterful books like ``Bloodlands: Europe Between Hitler and Stalin'' by Dr. Timothy Snyder of Yale begin to present the unfathomable dimension of the horror. If there is any place on the Earth the world community of nations owes a moral obligation and should seek to pull forward, it is Ukraine. The suffering and death endured by millions of innocent people inside Ukraine and nations in her immediate environs had no equal any place on Earth.…”