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the In- ternet and other digital media. In the wake of the col- lapse of the Soviet Union, communist governments in 8 EFTA00804732 Freedom House Eastern Europe, and military dictatorships elsewhere, there was an explosion of newspapers, radio and television stations, and other independent media with diver
sh people by failing to carry out a proper 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 parl
Jews of Silence,” which first alerted me to the plight of Soviet Jewish and non-Jewish dissidents. I traveled to the Soviet Union and other parts of Eastern Europe on several occasions during the 1970s and 1980s and filed briefs on behalf of dissidents Refusenicks and others. I have written extensively about thi
eople: Most recent winners - Rigoberto Menchu of Guatemala, Aung San Suu Kyi of Burma, the Dalai Lama of Tibet, Bishop Desmond Tutu of South Africa, Lech Walesa of Poland - were honored primarily for 398 HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_017485 4.2.12 WC: 191694 helping their own people, and they have continued to try to h
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igital media. In the wake of the col- lapse of the Soviet Union, communist governments in HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_019242 --- PAGE BREAK --- Freedom House Eastern Europe, and military dictatorships elsewhere, there was an explosion of newspapers, radio and television stations, and other independent media with diverse
Page: HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_019243 →lish people by failing to carry out a proper 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 parlia
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Bill Clinton
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Prince Andrew
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Barack Obama
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Marc Rich
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Alan Dershowitz
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Department of Justice
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Donald Trump
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Vladimir Putin
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Bashar al-Assad
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Romania
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Alfredo Rodriguez
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Estonia
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Bahrain
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Hillary Clinton
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Cynthia Nixon
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Adolf Hitler
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Crimea
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Norway
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