Ronald Reagan cited reports by Ukrainian Helsinki Group

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Preview of remarks by Andrij Dobriansky, Director of External Relations, Ukrainian World Congress Committee of America, Protecting Human Rights of Ukrainians Globally by Irena Jarosewich, Editor in Chief of Svoboda 1999-2007, Ukrainian World Congress at 50 and Beyond: The Roadmap, Toronto, Canada, 10 November 2017. - Constant monitoring of the Ukrainian Helsinki Group (Українська Гельсінська Група) recorded a pattern of repression that hardened Soviet apologists could not defend - 0:12 Information eventually trickled up to the ear of United States President Ronald Reagan - 0:22 Reagan, who offen attacked the Soviet Union, would cite specific actions reported by the Ukrainian Helsinki Group - 0:28 May 1988 trip to the Soviet Union, meeting with Soviet dissidents, including Viacheslav Chornovil (Вячеслaв Чорновiл) and his wife, Atena Pashko, Petro Ruban, Mykhailo and Olha Horyn, Ivan Ev - 1:06 Ukrainian Congress Committee of America (Український Конґресовий Комітет Америки), US Millennium Committee - 2:00 Entire system of underground writing smuggled out of the Soviet gulag Ukrainian World Congress www.ukrainianworldcongress.org Video by UkeTube Ukrainian Video