UN General Assembly
1964

84. The Soviet Union is consistent in its support for the struggle of the peoples of Asia, Africa and Latin America for the right freely to determine their own destiny. It unequivocally associates itself with the demand for the elimination of colonialism and neocolonialism put forward by the Second Conference of Non-Aligned Countries at Cairo; it does so because this demand is one which has been made by the Soviet State since the time of the great Lenin. 85. The abrogation of inequitable treaties imposed by the former parent States on a number of young countries, the dismantling of foreign military bases on their territory, the cessation of all foreign interference in the political and economic life of these countries — all these are legitimate and just demands which must be satisfied without delay. One can dam the flow of mighty rivers, one can tame the enormous power of the atom, but one cannot curb the energy of the peoples in their march towards freedom, independence and social progress.