‘Live Not By Lies’ Highlights Forgotten Anti-Communist Heroes

‘Live Not By Lies’ Highlights Forgotten Anti-Communist Heroes

By Katrina Trinko, The Daily Signal | April 05, 2025 For Silvester Krcmery, each morning began with what he called an “inventory check.” Krcmery, a doctor who described his prison cell as so small he could not sit, recalls waking up in the bitterly cold atmosphere. “Do I still have my nose? Because it was as cold as a frozen stone. So I check: all right, I still have my nose,” he recalls in a clip from the new docuseries, “Live Not by Lies.”“The…

‘Free China’ in History: A Look Back at Cold War Taiwan’s Anti-Communist Defectors

Written by Andrew Morris. Reflecting on the 2023 IJTS Open Access Award-winning paper, the author revisits his path toward researching the Cold War-era defections from the PRC to Taiwan—stories once celebrated in Taiwan as “anti-communist righteous warriors.” This article shows how these largely forgotten stories offer a rare insight into a fervent hope once shared by millions in Taiwan.Continue reading