Adam Michnik's creed has always been to serve the values of liberalism and pluralism, where reason guides society, to serve basic Christian values, where truth will set us free and where there is morality in politics; and that can only happen in the world of European civilization.
World wars have transformed the USA into a “European power”. Its desire to free itself of Europe’s influence, fueled by suspicion and frustration, has always endured in American society.
The practice of compiling “blacklists” has reemerged in Romania. Such lists were used by legionnaires and communists to take out their opponents. The former provoked a spiral of political violence and death.
