UN General Assembly
1948

As regards the question of displaced persons from Eastern Europe, reactionary propaganda was striving to represent those people as victims of an «intolerable» regime on the other side of the «iron curtain». Such propaganda obviously presupposed that the masses of the world’s population had already forgotten that most of the refugees had fled from their countries with the Nazi army because they had collaborated with it or had been deceived by their quisling leaders. There was no need to enlarge on the subject. The important fact was that the displaced persons, who were naturally willing to sell themselves for a crust of bread to anyone ready to buy their services, were partly being employed as cheap labour and partly in hostile and diversionary acts against the States of Eastern Europe. Peace and peaceful co-operation among nations were hardly possible when fascist hirelings were being sent to engage in diversionary activities in countries which were Members of the United Nations.