Statement from Ontario PC Leader Patrick Brown on the 25th Anniversary of the Dissolution of the Warsaw Pact
The following is a statement from Ontario PC Leader Patrick Brown on the 25th Anniversary of the Dissolution of the Warsaw Pact:
“A quarter of a century ago, the dissolution of the Warsaw Pact marked the effective end of the Cold War.
Since 1955, the Warsaw Pact represented the Soviet Union’s total military and political domination over all of the countries that found themselves behind the Iron Curtain.
Throughout its ignoble history, the Warsaw Pact was used against its own populations rather than against any external threat. The Pact’s major interventions, suppressing the peaceful Hungarian Revolution and Prague Spring, proved that it was a puppet organization designed to deny the people of Central and Eastern Europe their basic rights and freedoms.
I am pleased to join with Ontario’s Central and Eastern European communities – many members of which came to Canada seeking refuge from Communist tyranny – in marking the end of Soviet domination over Europe and the return of peace to their countries of origin.”