UN General Assembly
1956

41. I have enough imagination, I think, to understand an emotional feeling which associates colonialism exclusively with rule from overseas, but this does not provide a rational basis for consideration of this general subject of colonialism. What remains of sea-borne colonialism today is subject to the benevolent and ever-vigilant eye of the United Nations — whereas the vast area of land- borne colonialism of the Soviet Union and the tens of millions of human beings who are subject to it are totally and wholly removed from the protection of the United Nations and indeed made a mockery and a sham of our benevolent efforts. One need only mention, of course, the name of Hungary in this regard.