Yelena Bonner

After 33 Years of Torture and Prison, A Life of Forgiveness

Thor Halvorssen | Posted 08.22.2011

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Thor Halvorssen

Buddhist monk Palden Gyatso endured 33 years of torture at the hands of the Chinese government in Tibet's most brutal prison. You are invited to hear his life story -- one of the greatest never told.

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Russian Rights Activist, Soviet Dissident Reportedly Dies

AP | Posted 08.18.2011

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BOSTON — Yelena Bonner, a Russian rights activist and widow of Nobel Peace Prize winner Andrei Sakharov, has died, her daughter said early Sunda...

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1989 And the Fall of the Wall: Did Reagan Do It?

Jesse Larner | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Czeslaw Milosz, Charter 77, 1989, Ronald Reagan, Vaclav Havel, Adam Michnik, Plastic People of the Universe, Leszek Kolakowski, Jacek Kuron, East Germany, Andrei Sakharov, Imre Nagy, Lech Walesa, Aleksandr Dubcek, Aleksander Solzhenitsyn, Moscow Helsinki Group, Bronislaw Geremak, Yelena Bonner, Berlin Wall, Mikhail Gorbachev, Ddr, World News
Jesse Larner

Regan probably hastened the fall of the Wall by a few years, but it could have fallen without him. It could not however, have fallen without the sacrifices of those living under Soviet Communism.

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