Survivors of Socialism

Dr. Michael Šust escaped communist Czechoslovakia for freedom in the United States over 30 years ago. He now serves as a pastor spreading messages of hope and freedom. Pastor Michael is the founder an...

Ildikó Trien was only 5 when her life changed forever the moment the guards barged into her house, took her father away to the gulags, and took the rest of the family to live in a shack and sleep on a...

Born and raised in communist Ukraine, Congresswoman Victoria Spartz moved to the US when she was 21 after meeting her husband Jason. She became a US Citizen and worked her way up from being a bank tel...

Part 2 of one woman's harrowing story of imprisonment and survival in the face of the Chinese government's persecution of Falun Gong.   This is the powerful and moving story of how a bright, successfu...

Born and raised in Nicaragua, Veronica recently fled to America for a better life and to speak out about the downfall of her home country. Veronica talks about Nicaragua's socialist history and commun...

Jorge Andrés Galicia Rodríguez is a political activist and attorney who fled socialist Venezuela for America nearly three years ago. Jorge has been speaking out against the socialist authoritarian dic...

Gabby Franco shares her story of fleeing Hugo Chavez's Venezuela as well as her family, friends, Olympic career, and education for America almost 20 years ago. She was the first female shooter to repr...