“…Item based on interviews conducted with defectors and immigrants in Western refugee camps and immigration offices, or Western travelers returning from stays in East European communist countries, supplemented with information collected through Radio Free Europe (RFE) correspondence with anonymous sources from behind the Iron Curtain. …”

“…Item based on interviews conducted with defectors and immigrants in Western refugee camps and immigration offices, or Western travelers returning from stays in East European communist countries, supplemented with information collected through Radio Free Europe (RFE) correspondence with anonymous sources from behind the Iron Curtain. …”

“…Item based on interviews conducted with defectors and immigrants in Western refugee camps and immigration offices, or Western travelers returning from stays in East European communist countries, supplemented with information collected through Radio Free Europe (RFE) correspondence with anonymous sources from behind the Iron Curtain. …”

“…Item based on interviews conducted with defectors and immigrants in Western refugee camps and immigration offices, or Western travelers returning from stays in East European communist countries, supplemented with information collected through Radio Free Europe (RFE) correspondence with anonymous sources from behind the Iron Curtain. …”

“…Item based on interviews conducted with defectors and immigrants in Western refugee camps and immigration offices, or Western travelers returning from stays in East European communist countries, supplemented with information collected through Radio Free Europe (RFE) correspondence with anonymous sources from behind the Iron Curtain. …”

“…Item based on interviews conducted with defectors and immigrants in Western refugee camps and immigration offices, or Western travelers returning from stays in East European communist countries, supplemented with information collected through Radio Free Europe (RFE) correspondence with anonymous sources from behind the Iron Curtain. …”

“…Item based on interviews conducted with defectors and immigrants in Western refugee camps and immigration offices, or Western travelers returning from stays in East European communist countries, supplemented with information collected through Radio Free Europe (RFE) correspondence with anonymous sources from behind the Iron Curtain. …”

“…Soros Documentary Fund Formed in 1968, following the Soviet invasion of Czechoslovakia, the rock band, Plastic People of the Universe (PPU) was inspired by American music banned by the Communist regime, including The Velvet Underground, Frank Zappa, Captain Beefheart, and The Doors. …”

“…Soros Documentary Fund A documentary about two men in their seventies with a bond between them – both Holocaust survivors and Czech/American émigrés, who left Prague as dissidents under the Communist regime. Jan Wiener, 77, is the fighter of the title, a fit, trim university literature professor abroad and wilderness guide at home, in Lenox, Massachusetts. …”