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From: aem@ibiza.Miami.Edu (a.e.mossberg)
Newsgroups: comp.misc
Subject: Re: I'm pro Russian
Keywords: Soviet, UUCP network
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Date: 29 Nov 88 20:08:29 GMT
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In <2365@cbnews.ATT.COM>,  wrote:
>So what will be accomplished with a USENET connection to Moscow University?
>I agree that it will mainly transfer some low grade technical information
>into the USSR.  I agree that it won't make any difference to the KGB or
>GRU.  What I want is to make life as difficult as possible for anyone living
>there so they want to leave or demand real reforms.  I'm opposed to anything
>that makes the USSR a better place to live.  If you don't share this opinion
>fine, just be sure to tell it to at least one escapee from the USSR.

We have several professors here from the Soviet Union with whom I've discussed both
recent Soviet reforms and elctronic information exchange. These are not visiting,
they are naturalized citizens of the US.  *All* of them applaud the changes under
Misha and feel that better communication between the peoples of the super-powers
can only benefit everybody.

>Like I said before, once the USSR permits free immigration to all their
>citizens I'll believe they are civilized.

You mean "emigration".  I agree that there should be free emigration allowed.
The Soviet Union is not alone in restricting emigration. Israel is also guilty
of this.

aem

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