“September 21, 1982
By the President of the United States of America
A Proclamation
The spontaneous formation on November 9, 1976, in Kiev, Ukraine, of the Ukrainian Public Group to Promote the Implementation of the Helsinki Accords affirmed once more that the human spirit cannot be crushed and that the desire for human freedom cannot be conquered.
The long prison terms meted out to members of the Ukrainian Helsinki Monitoring Group for their courageous activities to secure greater freedom in Ukraine are graphic testimony to the inability of Communism to compete with the principles of freedom in the marketplace of ideas. The flagrant persecution and imprisonment of Ukrainian citizens for their attempts to exercise basic human rights is an international embarrassment to the Soviet Union and proof that the Soviet Union has failed to live up to its pledges to honor the understandings embodied in the Helsinki Accords.
In commemorating this sixth anniversary of the founding of the Ukrainian Helsinki Monitoring Group, we renew our determination never to forget the valiant struggle of the peoples of Ukraine for their inalienable rights, and we pledge to do all we can to ameliorate the plight of those Ukrainians who have been persecuted by the Soviet authorities for attempting to assert their rights.”
Do you think Reagan even read it before someone affixed his signature to it?
Trump authorized direct military aid to Ukraine -- pointless as it may have been.
My GAF about that Third World dump ended when a bunch of American leftists and their Ukrainian counterparts effectively attempted a coup against the Trump administration in 2019. Now, I wouldn't give a sh!t if Russia occupied Alexander Vindman's entire home country for a thousand years.