Dishonest Promises and Illegitimate Regimes

"I really don’t think I had a political agenda as such when writing this book. Do I want to drive a nail into the coffin of the idea that there was something good about Communism and that it was just a much misunderstood system? Yes. But I don’t see why that’s right-wing any more."

Hayden Berry talks to Anne Applebaum, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Gulag: A History. Her most recent book Iron Curtain: The Crushing of Eastern Europe 1944-1956 was published in 2012.

To read the full interview visit: https://www.neweasterneurope.eu/node/778