Historical Society Talk: "Ukraine, Poland and the Roots of American Opposition to Russian Tyranny"

Americans looked on with horror as a massive Russian military force invaded one of Europe's poorest and weakest nations. Day after day, the news media reported one atrocity after another committed by a heartless Russian regime. Churches burned, cities reduced to rubble, civilians trapped with no place to flee, reports flooded into the United States of how the Russian army indiscriminately killed children, the sick, the elderly and women. Faced with such brutality and unrelenting hostility to the rights and freedoms of common, everday and innocent people, Americans across the country vehemently denounced the corrupt Russian state and the tyrant behind this evil war. Despite the United States being a staunch ally of this unfortunate victim of Russian aggression, the media predicted this proud nation of Europe would soon be crushed by Russia with not much we could do to intervene:

"The enemy [Russia] was slowly, but we feel surely…