Assembly of Captive European Nations

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

History

The organization was founded on September 20, 1954, its headquarters was in New York and had offices in Bonn, London and Paris. The ACEN united representatives from nine countries of Central and Eastern Europe, which were after the Second World War under the rule of the Soviet Union. It was exiled politicians, former government officials and leaders in the cultural sector from Albania, Bulgaria, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Poland, Romania, Czechoslovakia and Hungary.

After the Free Europe Committee, which ACEN founded and financially supported, had cut the subsidies for ACEN in January 1972 because of budget cuts, the offices of the organization have been closed. All documents and records of the organization are kept in the Immigration History Research Center, University of Minnesota.

Objectives

Among the declared by the organization itself, it aims to operate the liberation of the country from the communist dictatorship by peaceful means, to make the public opinion on the events behind the Iron Curtain attention and the support of various institutions of government and society was to advertise.

Source

  • Immigration History Research Center, Un. of Minnesota
  • International Organization
  • European History
  • Cold War
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