Dr. Lee Edwards, distinguished fellow in conservative thought at The Heritage Foundation and chairman of the Victims of Communism Memorial Foundation, discusses the end of the Soviet Union during the 2017 conference: “The god that failed: Communism & socialism then and now” held on the campus of Grove City College on April 20-21, 2017.
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