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From: norm@ariel.UUCP (N.ANDREWS)
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Subject: Re: Tutu Makes a DooDoo
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Date: Wed, 9-Jan-85 13:37:49 EST
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>I don't see how you can say that selling arms to South Africa makes
>Israel a supporter of apartheid (if in fact they do sell arms).
>
>Does trading with the Soviet Union make the U.S. a supporter of
>communism?
>
>ellen bart
>
Yes, trading with the Soviet Empire, an evil empire ruled by an evil regime,
does make the U.S> a supporter of that evil regime and a supporter of
communism.  The ability of the Soviet regime to survive has been partly
and perhaps largely due to support from Western trade.  Even the ability to
calculate costs of production in the Soviet Union (or anywhere else) depend on
the existence of free or relatively free markets. More important, perhaps, than
the material value of trade with the west is the value to the Soviets of
all kinds of *information* that is passed from the west.

But, perhaps the greatest support free countries give to the Soviet Union's
regime is moral.  The people oppressed by the Soviet Union are not only
betrayed by the actions of the freer nations, but they even, to a large
extent, *know* that they've been betrayed, and that hurts.
I'm sure Solzhenitsyn (spelling?) would back up my remarks, but are there
any net readers out there who can/dare_to provide first hand information?
on this?


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