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From: lvc@cbnews.ATT.COM (Lawrence V. Cipriani)
Newsgroups: comp.misc
Subject: Re: I'm pro Russian
Summary: Why and why not
Keywords: Soviet, UUCP network
Message-ID: <2365@cbnews.ATT.COM>
Date: 28 Nov 88 23:35:22 GMT
References: <192@s1.sys.uea.ac.uk> <2326@cbnews.ATT.COM> <7961@dasys1.UUCP> <222@twwells.uucp>
Organization: AT&T Bell Laboratories, Columbus
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My last posting on this worn out topic (unless somebody gets rude and I
have to be rude too).

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.

Any information that flows out of the USSR is no doubt carefully screened
and low grade.  A lot of the technical journals from the USSR contain a
lot of junk.  You really have to sift thought a lot to find something good,
sort of like USENET.

My earlier statement about the roles of the KGB and GRU is not accurate.
The KGB, I'm sure, has a very big role in the US.  However, it is
fundamentally different than that of the GRU.

US missiles pointed at the UK?  Nah, they're pointed at France :-(
The people that I'm most concerned with in western gov't aren't the
technical types; it's the policy making, power hungry bureaucrats that
scare me.  However I'm more nervous about helping someone, no matter who
they are, from the USSR than just about anywhere else in the world.  I
can't worry about *everything* that I do and how it may harm me someday.
I've got better things to do.

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

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