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Robert C. Byrd: “I hope that the Polish people will be allowed to make their own decisions and work out their own destiny which they are…”

On the recordDecember 13, 1980
I hope that the Polish people will be allowed to make their own decisions and work out their own destiny which they are perfectly capable of doing.
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Robert C. Byrd
West Virginia
Source
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Dec 13, 1980

Editor's note · Context

Speaking on the threat of a Soviet invasion of Poland.

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