Robert Krieble News Today

I am deeply humbled to deliver the Krieble Lecture at the Heritage Foundation's Resource Bank meeting today. Robert Krieble's dogged advancement of the principles of freedom in the Soviet Union sowed the seeds that felled that wall and I am honored to speak in his memory.

Robert Krieble was a model and inspiration for conservatives. In a world where most decision-makers were fashioning their policies on the assumption that the socialist way of thinking and the Soviet Union are permament fixtures on the planet, Robert Krieble and some other great leaders such as Ronald Reagan and Margaret Thatcher thought otherwise. Those people refused to be blinded by the Red Smog. They broke the back of the Soviet Empire in the Cold War, pressed the Soviet Union into the corner...

The closest thing to real news seen on Russia's state-owned television came, when Marina Ovsyannikova, a TV producer, rushed onto the set of an evening news program, holding an anti-war sign.