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From: lvc@cbnews.ATT.COM (Lawrence V. Cipriani)
Newsgroups: comp.misc
Subject: Re: Soviet Access to Usenet
Summary: Soviet objectives
Message-ID: <2355@cbnews.ATT.COM>
Date: 28 Nov 88 14:53:53 GMT
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In article <222@taniwha.UUCP>, michael@taniwha.UUCP (Michael Hamel) writes:

> There is a big gap between Leninist/Marxist theory and practice
> in the USSR, and I believe they know that very well.

Please tell us what the correct number of victims is.

> Could you bring yourself to believe that they might have changed in the
> last twenty years?

No way, Gorbachev has no power, he is only a figure head.  Power in the
Soviet Union hasn't been in the hands of one man since Stalin.  Power
is shared; they have a system of checks and balances (much different in
character than our system) to prevent any one power base from eating the
others.  What has changed recently is that the Soviets have much better
public relations than in the past.  That's all there is to it.

When the Soviet Union allows free immigration to all citizens then I will
believe they have *fundamentally* changed.  Until then, it is a prison,
and only a prison.

-- 
Larry Cipriani, AT&T Network Systems, Columbus OH,
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