During the course of his career, some of Galtung statements and views have drawn criticism, most notably his criticism of Western countries during and after the Cold War and what his critics perceived as a positive attitude to the Soviet Union, Cuba and Communist China. A 2007 article by Bruce Bawer published in "City Journal" magazine and a subsequent article in February 2009 by Barbara Kay in the "National Post" criticised some of Galtung's statements, including his opinion that while Communist China was "repressive in a certain liberal sense", Mao Zedong was "endlessly liberating when seen from many other perspectives that liberal theory has never understood". Calling Galtung a "lifelong enemy of freedom", Bawer claimed that Galtung discouraged Hungarian resistance against the Soviet invasion in 1956, and criticized his description in 1974 of Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn and Andrei Sakharov as "persecuted elite personages".