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From: bader+@andrew.cmu.edu (Miles Bader)
Newsgroups: comp.misc
Subject: Re: I'm pro Russian
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Date: 29 Nov 88 14:36:20 GMT
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lvc@cbnews.ATT.COM (Lawrence V. Cipriani) writes:
> 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.

God forbid that a political system you don't agree with should make
it's citizens happy!  Aren't you being a bit arrogant, deciding what
other people should want?  Maybe (just maybe) they have different
priorities than you...

-Miles