Assembly of Captive European Nations

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The Eastern European countries represented in ACEN

The Assembly of Captive European Nations , ACEN (German: Assembly of the Subjugated Nations of Europe ) was an international organization of various groups in exile from the states of Eastern Europe .

history

The organization was founded on September 20, 1954, its headquarters were in New York and had additional offices in Bonn, London and Paris. The ACEN brought together representatives from nine nations in Central and Eastern Europe that were under the rule of the Soviet Union after the Second World War . These were politicians in exile, former members of the government and leaders from the cultural sector from Albania , Bulgaria , Estonia , Latvia , Lithuania , Poland , Romania , Czechoslovakia and Hungary .

After the Free Europe Committee founded and financially supported ACEN, and due to budget cuts, ACEN's grants were canceled in January 1972, the organization's offices were closed. All organization documents and records are held in the University of Minnesota Immigration History Research Center .

aims

One of the goals declared by the organization itself was to pursue the liberation of the countries from the communist dictatorship by peaceful means, to make public opinion aware of what was happening behind the Iron Curtain and to support various institutions of governments and society to advertise.

bibliography

  • Feliks Gadomski (ACEN Secretary General): Zgromadzenie Europejskich Narodów Ujarzmionych. Krótki Zarys. Bicentennial Publishing Corporation "Nowy Dziennik", New York NY 1995.
  • Anna Mazurkiewicz: "The Voice of the Silenced Peoples". The Assembly of Captive European Nations. In: Ieva Zake (Ed.): Anti-communist minorities in the US Political activism of ethnic refugees. Palgrave Macmillan, New York NY 2009, ISBN 978-0-230-60681-4 , pp. 167-185, doi : 10.1007 / 978-0-230-62159-6_9 .
  • Anna Mazurkiewicz: Join, or Die ”- The Road to Cooperation Among East European Exiled Political Leaders in the United States, 1949–1954. In: Polish American Studies. Vol. 69, No. 2, 2012, ISSN  0032-2806 , pp. 5-43, doi : 10.5406 / poliamerstud.69.2.0005 .

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