Sixty years ago, on July 17, 1959, the inaugural Captive Nations Week proclamation (July 19-26, 1959) was signed into law by President Dwight D. Eisenhower. The proclamation designated the third week in July as Captive Nations Week with similar proclamations to be issued in subsequent years “until such time as freedom and independence shall have been achieved for all the captive nations of the world.”
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