Two decades ago, at a conference in Gdansk, Poland, marking the 25th anniversary of Poland’s Solidarity Movement, Radek Sikorski, now the foreign minister of Poland, gathered Lech Wałęsa, the head of the movement that arguably set the clock ticking down on Soviet tyranny, and other Solidarity alumni and dissidents still facing their own evil empires.

At the final dinner, I sat across from former national security adviser Zbigniew Brzezinski. Soviet betrayal of Poland profoundly affected Brzezinski. He worked for Jimmy Carter, but when it came to defeating communism in Europe, he was a hawk. A few Iranian dissidents were also at the table. They asked Brzezinski why Iranians should not enjoy the same freedom and liberty that post-Communist Poland had. Brzezinski said nothing; he just got up and walked away. 

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