UN General Assembly
1949

132. At the 226th meeting, as on many other occasions, the leader of the USSR delegation had accused the democracies of imperialism. The fact was, of course, that imperialism of the old kind was a rapidly diminishing force and a dying doctrine. The real danger lay in the new imperialism of the post-war period. During that period only one State in the world had extended its borders and the area of its domination. That State had annexed 179,000 square miles of territory, and had included within its borders in the preceding ten years more than twenty-one million people. Backed by its armies, it had imposed satellite regimes on neighbouring States. It had used its great material power and resources to impose its economic control on the peoples under its influence. Its leaders had talked freely of liberation and of national sovereignty, but its agents abroad had never hesitated to proclaim their obedience to its control and their determination to serve its interests above the interests of their own Governments and their own peoples.