In 1947, when liberal thinkers and wise men of the West, who had forgotten the meaning of the word 'liberty,' were swearing that there were no concentration camps in the Soviet Union at all, the American Federation of Labor published a map of our concentration camps, and on behalf of all the prisoners of those times, I want to thank the American workers' movement for this.
— Alexander Solzhenitsyn
1975 dinner speech in Washington DC, hosted by the AFL-CIO [published in "Warning to the West"]