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Learning About Communism From a Former Communist

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Learning About Communism From a Former Communist
Ion Mihai Pacepa in 1975. ANGHEL PASAT/AGERPRES ARHIVA
Ronald J. Rychlak
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One of the great joys that I have experienced in recent years is my friendship with Ion Mihai Pacepa. “Mike,” as I call him, is the highest-ranking officer ever to defect from the Soviet bloc. He was once the right-hand man to Nicolae Ceausescu, the president of communist Romania.

Ronald J. Rychlak
Ronald J. Rychlak
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Ronald J. Rychlak is the Jamie L. Whitten chair in law and government at the University of Mississippi. He is the author of several books, including “Hitler, the War, and the Pope,” “Disinformation” (co-authored with Ion Mihai Pacepa), and “The Persecution and Genocide of Christians in the Middle East” (co-edited with Jane Adolphe).
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