#Noam_Chomsky :
▻http://www.praguepost.com/czech-news/39448-chomsky-east-european-dissidents-did-not-suffer-much
#Dissidents in the East European communist countries were supported by the Western powers and they did not suffer extraordinarily in comparison with opponents of Latin American regimes, U.S. linguist and left-wing activist Noam Chomsky told a press conference.
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To illustrate his point, Chomsky referred to an address #Havel delivered in the U.S. Congress in 1990, two months after he was elected Czechoslovak president.
Chomsky said the dissident Havel addressed the Congress shortly after the government army killed six prominent intellectuals at a university in #Salvador. The administration of U.S. President #Ronald_Reagan supported the Salvadoran army and far-right government, while the Soviet Union supported the rebels, he said.
In this situation, Havel praised the United States as the defender of freedom and the Congress strongly applauded him, Chomsy said.