[Congressional Bills 112th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H. Res. 790 Introduced in House (IH)]

112th CONGRESS
  2d Session
H. RES. 790

Expressing support for designation of August 23 as Black Ribbon Day to 
      recognize the victims of Soviet Communist and Nazi regimes.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                           September 19, 2012

   Mr. Daniel E. Lungren of California (for himself and Mr. Shimkus) 
submitted the following resolution; which was referred to the Committee 
                   on Oversight and Government Reform

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                               RESOLUTION


 
Expressing support for designation of August 23 as Black Ribbon Day to 
      recognize the victims of Soviet Communist and Nazi regimes.

Whereas the United States Government has actively advocated for and continues to 
        support the principles by the United Nations Universal Declaration of 
        Human Rights and the United Nations General Assembly resolution 260 
        (III) of December 9, 1948;
Whereas Captive Nations Week, signed into law (Public Law 86-90) by President 
        Dwight D. Eisenhower in 1959, raised public awareness of the oppression 
        of nations under the control of Communist and other nondemocratic 
        governments;
Whereas the European Parliament resolution on European conscience and 
        totalitarianism of April 2, 2009, and the Black Ribbon Day resolution 
        adopted by the Parliament of Canada of November 30, 2009, establish a 
        day of remembrance for victims of Communist and Nazi regimes to remember 
        and commemorate their victims;
Whereas August 23 would be an appropriate date to designate as Black Ribbon Day 
        to remember and never forget the terror millions of citizens in Central 
        and Eastern Europe experienced for more than 40 years by ruthless 
        military, economic, and political repression of the people through 
        arbitrary executions, mass arrests, deportations, the suppression of 
        free speech, confiscation of private property, and the destruction of 
        cultural and moral identity and civil society, all of which deprived the 
        vast majority of the peoples of Central and Eastern Europe of their 
        basic human rights and dignity, separating them from the democratic 
        world by means of the Iron Curtain and the Berlin Wall; and
Whereas the memories of Europe's tragic past cannot be forgotten in order to 
        honor the victims, condemn the perpetrators, and lay the foundation for 
        reconciliation based on truth and remembrance: Now, therefore, be it
    Resolved, That the House of Representatives supports the 
designation of Black Ribbon Day to recognize the victims of Soviet 
Communist and Nazi regimes.
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