First Post-Soviet President of Ukraine Praises “Nine Commentaries on the Communist Party”

Leonid Kravchuk, first president of post-Soviet Ukraine, has praised the editorial series “Nine Commentaries on the Communist Party.”

Leonid Kravchuk, the first president of independent Ukraine and a former Soviet official who resigned from the communist party in 1991, speaks in an interview with NTD Television Screenshot/NTDTV

In 1991, the communist leader of Ukraine, Leonid Kravchuk, renounced Marx and declared his republic’s independence from the disintegrating Soviet Union, becoming the first president of modern Ukraine.

Starting on November 19, 2004, the Chinese-language Epoch Times began publishing the “Nine Commentaries on the Communist Party,” a series of editorials exposing the the history and nature of communist rule.