U.S. Condemnations of Soviet Human Rights Abuses
In one of the most prominent condemnations of Soviet human rights abuses by any U.S. President, Ronald Reagan, during his Presidency, labeled the Soviet Union an "evil empire" and several influential anti-communist intellectuals defended the label. In 1987, for instance, in commemoration of the 70th anniversary of the 1917 Bolshevik Revolution, Michael Johns of the Heritage Foundation cited 208 perceived acts of human rights and other abuses by the Soviets since the revolution.
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