Poland Interviews
Lech Wałęsa
Gdańsk Lenin Shipyard, Wałęsa and Mazowiecki 1988 May 04
On campaign trail in Mielec and Rzeszów 1990 November 02
Visiting U.S., Blair House circa 2005 August
Tadeusz Mazowiecki
Mazowiecki campaigning in Szczecin 1990 November 04
Lech Kaczyński
Visit to UN in New York 2008 September 23
Jan Krzysztof Bielecki and Jarosław Kaczyński 1992 January 27
Ryszard Kapuściński
Wisława Szymborska 1997 January 20
Andrzej Wajda
Steven Spielberg
1994 March 02
Assorted Polish interviews, batch 1
Editor-in-Chief of Polish publishing house SuperNowa circa 1976-2008
Aleksander Kwaśniewski
Adam Michnik 1991 May 09
Mieczysław Rakowski 1988 April 29
Janusz Reykowski 1988 April 29
Leszek Balcerowicz 1991 October 30
Stanisław Ciosek 1991 September 10
Andrzej Lepper 1999 November 03
Krzysztof Kozłowski 1990 September 06
Ryszard Kukliński 1997 October 13
Assorted Polish interviews, batch 2
Andrzej Wajda, Bronisław Geremek, Zbigniew Bujak 1989 November 03
Bronisław Geremek
Grzegorz Boguta 1990 November 09
Henryk Grynberg 1992 February 26
Wiesław Górnicki 1990 November 21
Ireneusz Sekuła 1990 December 13
Bogusław Bagsik 1991 August 07
Mirosław Hentosz 1995 October 24
Andrzej Celiński (side A and part of B) 1991 October 29
Aleksander Kwaśniewski 1991 October 29
Andrzej Olechowski 1991 January 21
Jerzy Bielecki 1994 October 07
Russia Interviews
Mikhail Gorbachev
Interview with foreign journalists 1995 February 24
Interview in Novosibirsk 1995 February 24
Yegor Gaidar 1994 January 05
Sergei Grigoryants circa 1995 July 02 - 1996 July 02
General Aleksandr Lebed circa 1995 October 18
Aleksandr Prokhanov 1996 May 15
Roy Medvedev
Michael Voslensky 1988 January 19
Vladimir Voinovich 1995 August 25
Historian Roy Medvedev (not former prisoner) 1995 September 5
Valentina Tikhonova 1995 August 15
Viktor Samsonov 1995 September 26
Yevgenia Kertz 1995 September 26
Czech and Slovak Interviews
Václav Havel
1986 March 28
As President 1991 July 01
As President 1993 January 21
As President 1999 February 10
Alexander Dubček 1990 May 14
Assorted Czech interviews
Petr Uhl 1987 October 27
Václav Mály 1991 January 09
Václav Klaus 1990 October 16
Miroslav Štěpán 1991 October 07
Bedřich Moldan 1991 September 23
Jiří Dienstbier 1992 June 10
Jiří Dienstbier 1994 November 11
Bronisław Geremek 1994 November 15
Jiří Dienstbier, Martin Palouš, Vladimir Železný 1990 October 15
Jan Kavan 1991 September 24
Jan Čarnogurský (Slovakia) 1991 January 07
Hungary Interviews
Imre Mécs and Sándor Rácz 1986 October 07
Prime Minister Viktor Orbán 1998 September 10
András Hegedüs circa 1976-2008
President Árpád Göncz 1990 May 18
Prime Minister József Antall 1991 October 21
Foreign Minister László Kovács 1997 July 08
Gyula Horn, László Békesi, Gábor Jeszensky, Péter Boross 1994 April 21
Germany Interviews
Helmut Kohl 1986 October 16
Joachim Gauck 1999 October 12
Stefan Heym (East German writer) 1987 September 11
Andreas Nachama 1998 May 11
Gerhard Schröder 1999 April 13
Karsten Voigt
Social Democrats 1997 May 07
Petra Kelly, Greens 1985 April 26
Wilhelm Knabe, Greens 1987 August 28
Klaus and Eva Klein (Berlin Wall escapees) 1999 January 26
Kurt Biedenkopf 1996 October 21
Johannes Rau 1986 November 13
Jurgen Todenhöfer 1984 April 23
Cem Özdemir 1999 August 19
Arthur Burns (U.S. ambassador) 1985 March 13
Miscellaneous Interviews
Milovan Djilas 1987 October 06
Simon Wiesenthal 1994 February
Estonian Prime Minister Mart Laar 1994 March 17
Bulgarian President Zhelyu Zhelev circa 1990s
Bulgarian President Peter Stoyanov 1996 November 23
Stanislav Shushkevich (Minsk) 1994 February 01
Martti Ahtisaari 1999 June 11
Warren Zimmermann (head of US delegation to OSCE) 1986 October 28
Karl Schlögel (German writer on concept of Mitteleuropa) 1987 March 09
Kenneth Kaunda (President of Zambia, Lusaka) 1976 October 13
Alan Paton (anti-apartheid activist, Durban, South Africa) 1976 October 16
Ex-President George H.W. Bush circa 1994-2000
Gulbuddin Hekmatyar (Afghan rebel leader) 1985 November 13
Mikheil Saakashvili 2004 September 23
Lithuanian President Valdas Adamkus 1999 March 08
Erhard Busek (Austrian politician, on Mittleeuropa) 1987 February 10
Radio Interviews about Soviet Union and Eastern Europe
Pat McCann Show, WOR NY 1982 August 27
Diane Rehm Show, WAMU
"Newsweek" on Air 1985 March 31
Radio show, Nagorski's expulsion from Soviet Union circa 1980s