Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!husc6!bloom-beacon!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!osu-cis!att!cbnews!lvc 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 References: <7649@well.UUCP> <8081@bloom-beacon.MIT.EDU> <17651@gatech.edu> <222@taniwha.UUCP> Organization: AT&T Bell Laboratories, Columbus Lines: 24 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, Path: att!cbnews!lvc Domain: lvc@cbnews.ATT.COM