Stella Snyder, a writer and researcher who served as editorial assistant for the late Sen. Jesse Helms’ memoir, discusses the continuing importance of Helms’ and Russian novelist Alexander Solzhenitsyn’s anti-communism. Snyder delivered these remarks during a joint N.C. History Project/Jesse Helms Center Lecture, “No One Can Bar The Road to Truth,” delivered Oct. 13, 2010. The lecture is tied to the new NCHP paper, Champions of Freedom: Alexander Solzhenitsyn and Jesse Helms. To watch full-length presentations of John Locke Foundation events, click here.
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