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

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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

o come to the rescue of Hungarian freedom fighters in 1956; LBJ to support the Prague uprising in 1968; and Reagan to deny overt support for Polish Solidarity and others as they loosened the Soviet grip on the Warsaw Pact. If the likely outcome on the current path is unacceptable, or poses unacceptable r

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

parties that represent more independent liberal alternatives to register. The leadership of some of these groups -- in particular, Boris Nemtsov of Solidarity -- are now leading street protests in Moscow and St. Petersburg. They have little nationwide support, however, and given the degree of state contro

, Calvi recounted a conversation he had with Archbishop Marcinkus, claiming to have warned him "Be careful... If it comes out that you gave money to Solidarity, there won't be one stone of the Vatican left standing ." (He was referring to the Polish labor union movement which helped undermine the Soviet Un