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and freedom of the Press, wholesale witch-hunting, and even the very unjudicial execution of non-Communist political leaders. We are bound not only to deplore it but to feel a rising indignation because of our belief in democracy and human freedom. It adds to our sorrow and indignation that this process should so untruthfully and noisily be proclaimed as promoting democracy, freedom and anti-Fascism.
"Nobody is seeking to upset the internal security of the USSR. Can they not begin to reverse engines, and to discard provocative policies by which they are not only running the risk of war at some time but which are impeding the economic recovery and progress of mankind?
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Mr. Attlee (Prime Minister)-House of Commons, 24th January, 1948
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In the field of human rights to-day, Russia and Eastern Europe are at the back of the queue.
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Mr. Bevin (Foreign Secretary)-United Nations General Assembly,
28th September, 1948
I notice in the speech that Mr. Vyshinsky claimed that the contacts existing between friendly nations of the West were all part of a cold war against the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics. This is utter nonsense. There has been a war of nerves, but it has not been instituted by us. It began immediately the war ended. May I ask: what about the war of nerves on Turkey that kept her mobilised so long? Why the perpetual war of nerves, involving, in this case, actual fighting, against the lawfully elected Greek Government and the valiant and sorely tried Greek people?
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We know the reason. It is that the Soviet spider wants Greece within its
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Mr. McNeil (Minister of State)—United Nations Political Committee, 7th October, 1948
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Russia has enriched herself territorially to an extent beyond parallel in modern times. Outside her borders she has pursued a policy of daring and aggressive political warfare.
"Inside her borders visitors are few, newspapers are controlled, and even diplomatic personnel are now formally denied the courtesies of travel..
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Mr. Churchill (in Opposition)-Speech at Boston, 1st April, 1949
Thirteen men in the Kremlin, holding down hundreds of millions of people and aiming at the rule of the world, feel that at all costs they must keep up the barriers. Self-preservation, not for Russia but for themselves, lies at the root and is the explanation of their sinister and malignant policy.
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Behind this stands the largest army in the world, in the hands of a Government pursuing Imperialist expansion as no Tsar or Kaiser has ever done.
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Mr. Bevin (Foreign Secretary)-House of Commons, 12th May, 1949
When we tried to handle the problem of the Danube by means of a conference, a conference in which the Soviet bloc had a majority, notwithstanding our rights-our historical rights—in that river, we were treated in a most shameful
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The policy that has been followed by the Soviet Union seems to be to talk of peace and accuse others of being war-mongers, but at the same time to carry on a policy of promoting unsettlement all round.
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