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r purge of communists and their collaborators!' PiS even initiated a cam- paign to sully the reputation of Lech Walesa, leader of the anticommunist Solidarity movement in the 1980s, by accusing him of working as a communist agent." Since coming to power with a parliamentary majority in October 2015, PiS
ely is the main guarantor of the security of the Russian world."4 In 2014, amid Russia's invasion of Ukraine, Putin dredged up the tsarist-era term Novorossiya to de- scribe a large swath of southeastern Ukraine that he hinted might be annexed. Suddenly, the Novorossiya idea began appearing in Russian medi
litary incursion, portend a World War III, as even cool heads are now asking? As Adam Michnik, the great Polish intellectual and leader of the 1980 Solidarity movement, asked rhetorically at the aforementioned panel: "Will a European or an American want to go to war to defend Estonia or Latvia, both of th
nst Georgia in 2008. Now Putin also implies that Russia would begin to treat a broad swath of southeastern Ukraine -- a region historically called Novorossiya (New Russia) that was transferred to Ukraine by Soviet authorities -- as a Russian protectorate. But tough talk on Ukraine doesn't signal a prefere
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per purge of communists and their collaborators." PiS even initiated a cam- paign to sully the reputation of Lech Walesa, leader of the anticommunist Solidarity movement in the 1980s, by accusing him of working as a communist agent.’ Since coming to power with a parliamentary majority in October 2015, PiS ha
Page: HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_019272 →isely is the main guarantor of the security of the Russian world.” In 2014, amid Russia's invasion of Ukraine, Putin dredged up the tsarist-era term Novorossiya to de- scribe a large swath of southeastern Ukraine that he hinted might be annexed. Suddenly, the Novorossiya idea began appearing in Russian media,
Page: HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_019282 →Entities connected to both Solidarity and Novorossiya

Vladimir Putin
PERSON
Barack Obama
PERSON
United States
LOCATIONKremlin
ORGANIZATION
Angela Merkel
PERSON
Crimea
LOCATION
Ronald Reagan
PERSON
Yemen
LOCATION
Latvia
LOCATIONSlovyansk
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Philippines
LOCATION
Zimbabwe
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Prince Andrew
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Norway
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Bashar al-Assad
PERSON
Jerusalem
LOCATION
European Parliament
ORGANIZATIONMaidan
ORGANIZATION
European Union
ORGANIZATION
Chile
LOCATION