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Building Bridges
A tribute from Saudi Arabia. Infrastructure politics. Islam outloud. Founders and incorporation. Plus much more.
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VIA DIPLOMATIC POUCH
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Re: Quin Hillyer’s
The Victims
of Communism Memorial
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We are writing regarding your superb recent article, “The Victims of Communism Memorial,” by Quin Hillyer. As Foreign Service officers who have spent much of our 23-year careers fighting Communism and other forms of totalitarian oppression, including in Poland, the USSR, Turkmenistan, and Iraq, we were deeply moved by this noble initiative. Too often it is forgotten that Communism, just as Nazism, was a horribly brutal and often successful effort not only to tell man what to do, but even what to think. We are sure it has not escaped you that the date of the unveiling, June 12, is also Russian Independence Day, proclaimed by the late President Boris Yeltsin from the Soviet Union. How appropriate!
Bravo to Ambassador Lev Dobriansky who conceived of this deeply honorable Memorial, and has now brought it to fruition. May his name live forever on the side of the truth-tellers, when so many others averted their eyes.
p>Yours sincerely, br> — Tatiana C. Gfoeller-Volkoff br> U.S. Consul General br> Jeddah, Saudi Arabia /p> p>—
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