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Among the recipients of President Bush's Medals of Freedom was Robert Conquest, the English-American historian, poet, and all-purpose truth-teller.(Brief article)
Among the recipients of President Bush's Medals of Freedom was Robert Conquest, the English-American historian, poet, and all-purpose truth-teller. His books about the Soviet Union helped to topple that empire. In the 1930s, when he was a student at Oxford, Conquest was a Communist, but an open one, not a secret one, which is typical of the man. He quickly threw off his illusions to become one of the greatest of all anti-Communists. Not one for such designations as "liberal" and "conservative," he describes himself as a "law-and-liberty man." He takes those words from Orwell, ...
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