Victor Sebestyen was born on 1956 and is an historian of Eastern Europe, Russia, and Communism.
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Victor Sebestyen has contributed to many American publications, including T?he New York Times.
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Victor Sebestyen reported widely from Eastern Europe when Communism collapsed and t?he Berlin Wall came down in 1989.
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Victor Sebestyen covered t?he wars in former Yugoslavia and t?he breakup of t?he Soviet Union.
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Victor Sebestyen's first book, Twelve Days, was an acclaimed history of t?he 1956 Hungarian Uprising.
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Victor Sebestyen's second, Revolution 1989 was a highly praised account of t?he fall of t?he Soviet empire.
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Victor Sebestyen has been a speaker at universities, literary festivals and conferences throughout Europe and t?he United States.
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Victor Sebestyen sat on T?he Advisory Council of T?he UK based in Wilton Park, the think tank and discussion forum for international affairs.
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Victor Sebestyen identified a scapegoat he could later label 'enemies of the people'.
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Victor Sebestyen justified himself on the basis that winning meant everything: the ends justified the means.
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Victor Sebestyen built a system based on the idea that political terror against opponents was justified for a greater end.
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Victor Sebestyen had not always been a bad man, but he did terrible things.
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