dignity as a human, we should be behind them withbehi everything that we have. i agree 100%. you mentioned poland. h said the same thing in the gulag that they heard reagan was speaking out. against the soviet union. and those who were speakingg out, against the religious discrimination, human rights violations, it meant theto world to them. because they are isolated, they don t get to hear whatey is going on, but by word ofgo mouth from cell to cell he heard it.wo herd heard about it. same with the iranian people, i mean, if we re not standing up and speak foria them, by the way it is our own national security interest for that reve regime to go, the people are involved in regimeo go change. seems that least we could do is be speaking out. i don t see a lot of it int, i
Three women dissidents who were all imprisoned together in the Soviet prison system in the 1980s were recently reunited for the first time in many years, ETV news show 'Aktuaalne kaamera' (AK) reported Sunday.
gulag, the mass concentration samples. and it became immediately clear with amazing speed in the late 80s and early 90s that the system itself had no legitimacy, despite all the propaganda, despite all the puffery, people hated it. and once that had happened and once the various national movements in ukraine and in the baltic states and elsewhere began to dane traction, nobody wanted the soviet union either. so he it ended without him meaning to end it. he didn t intend to bring the era to an end. he didn t intend to end the soviet empire in eastern europe as well. the fall of the berlin wall was an accident. it wasn t planned. so he wound up being a very important historical figure without ever planning for that to happen. all right. just stay with us. i want to bring in senior international correspondent fred pleitgen, who joins us now live from the house of unions in
vladimir putin wants, and clearly what they want is a bargaining chip for the release of viktor bout, the arms dealer. there s been reports of more releases wanted. we re dealing with terrorist state. unfortunately, we probably have to pay the price for getting brittney griner and paul whelan, the former american marine who s also in prison, getting them out of putin s gulag. congressman, let me then talk to you about another sort of american adversary, with a small a, china. you had just traveled with speaker pelosi on her trip through asia, including to taiwan. was there any concern that china would retaliate, while we re on the ground? there was concern, but i think the two main objectives of the trip, were first to reassure our allies, partners and friends in the area including taiwan that we were there with them and under the taiwan relations act, obligated