The “Captive Nations Week” began in New-York on July 16.
The campaign has been held since 1959. The main idea is to attract the attention of the American public to the situation of peoples living in countries with authoritarian or totalitarian regime.
The rally was attended by 60 people.
In 1959, US President Dwight D. Eisenhower signed a law that declared the third week of July the “Captive Nations Week.”
In the same year he founded the anti-Communist raorganization called National Captive Nations Committee.
In 1959 the Captive Nations in the United States were:
Poland (now the EU)
Hungary (in the EU)
Lithuania (EU)
Ukraine (aims to join the EU)
Czechoslovakia (in 1993 split into the Czech Republic and Slovakia – both countries are now EU Member States)
Latvia (EU)
Estonia (EU)
Belarus
Romania (EU)
East Germany (merged with West Germany)
Bulgaria (EU)
Mainland China (PRC)
Armenia
Azerbaijan
Georgia
North Korea (DPRK)
Albania
Idel-Ural (unrealized national project of Tatars and Bashkirs)
Tibet (part of China)
Cossackia
Turkestan
Northern Vietnam
