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

t quasi-independent organization devoted to support of pro-democracy groups around the world. One of the NED’s early successes was its funding of the Solidarity trade union in Poland before the collapse of communism. The 1990s saw the growth of a host of international organizations capable of monitoring elect

n said, "Paul, that's not exactly what I meant by HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_031758 --- PAGE BREAK --- advance publicity." My show went fine, but in July, New Solidarity escalated the attack and published a whole dossier on me: In the early 1950s, Paul Krassner was recruited to the stable of pornographers and "social