Since the overthrow of communism, free-market right-wing forces in the various Eastern European countries enjoyed significant financial and organizational assistance from U.S.-financed agencies, such as the National Endowment for 1/5
Democracy, the AFL-CIO s Free Trade Union Institute (a group intimately linked to the CIA), and the Free Congress Foundation, an organization with an anticommunist and conservative religious ideology.4 Communists and other Marxists 2/5
endured political repression throughout Eastern Europe. In East Germany, the Party of Democratic Socialism had its property and offices, paid for by party mem-bers, seized in an attempt to bankrupt it. In Latvia, the communist 3/5
activist Alfreds Rubies, who protested the inequities of free-market "reform," has been kept in prison for years without benefit of trial In Lithuania, communist leaders were tortured and then imprisoned for long durations. 4/5
Georgia's anticommunist president, Zviad Gamsakhurdia, incarcerated opponents from some seventy political groups without granting them a trial (San Francisco Chronicle, 4/17/91). #abolishNATO 5/5
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