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Taken from KeelyNet BBS (214) 324-3501
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Sponsored by Vangard Sciences
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PO BOX 1031
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Mesquite, TX 75150
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January 5, 1990
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GORBASM.ASC
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This article reminds us of the warning of two Russian friends about
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3 years ago. They live in Houston and continue to have very close
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contacts with their friends back in Russia. From the very beginning
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of Glasnost, they told us to NOT BELIEVE A WORD OF IT.
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No matter what was said or done, their contacts say much of it is
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designed to lull the world into a sense of complacency. The true
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Glasnost objective was not known at that time but indications were
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that a major power shift was about to occur.
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At the time, we felt they might be bitter and thought their feelings
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might be slightly skewed. In light of recent events in Russia
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leading to major economic problems, splintering into multiple
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smaller countries and loss of the confidence of the people, we felt
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this article might be of interest.
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from the Dallas Times Herald, Thursday, January 3, 1991, page A-15
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Administration blinded by love for Gorbachev
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by Mona Charen
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Radio talk show host Rush Limbaugh has coined the term "Gorbasm" to
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capture the overwrought enthusiasm of some in the West for the
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Soviet leader.
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Here's a perfect example: Covering the resignation of Soviet foreign
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minister Eduard Shevardnadze, a CNN reporter described
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Shevardnadze's anguished warning about a NEW DICTATORSHIP. But
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then, spectularly MISSING THE POINT, the reporter lamented that
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Shevardnadze's departure would leave Mikhail Gorbachev all alone to
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cope with this looming tyranny.
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Only someone blinded by "Gorbasm" would be capable of that kind of
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OBTUSENESS. Yet belief in Gorbachev - while everyday more difficult
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to justify as he stands athwart the democratic reformers, sidles up
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to the KGB, and RENEWS TIES to the suffociating Communist Party
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nomenklatura - pervades liberal (and Bush administration) thinking
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about the Soviet Union.
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Andrei Sakharov's widow, Elena Bonner, wears no such blinders. She
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explicitly warns that Gorbachev HAS EMBARKED ON A COURSE TOWARD
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DICTATORSHIP. "The coup," she told Wall Street Journal, "has
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ALREADY HAPPENED." He has amassed more power than any previous
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Soviet leader, and is undermining even the flimsy patchwork of law
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the USSR does maintain.
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By propping up Gorbachev with $1 BILLION in agricultural credits,
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the Bush administration is casting its lot, AND OUR DOLLARS, with
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REFORM COMMUNISM rather TRUE REFORM.
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Why? Some argue that subsidies to the Soviets are a bribe for
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their continued cooperation in the gulf. Others believe that
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Secretary of State James Baker and President Bush are more worried
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about potential chaos in the USSR than about a potential return to
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Stalinist repression.
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If so, they are not alone. Media coverage of the situation in
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Eastern Europe and the Soviet Union is dominated by concerns about
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the dark forces the collapse of communism may have unleashed. CBS
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reporter Tom Fenton's comments last week were typical:
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"We all thought liberal democracy was the natural successor to
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communism. But...it really is NATIONALISM. And NATIONALISM was
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the plague of the '30s and '20s."
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Others have devoted enormouse amounts of ink and air time to
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atavistic, anti-Semitic, and anti-democratic groups that have
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crawled out from under rocks in the Soviet Union - frequently
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confusing them with nationalists.
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Indeed, since the violence between Armenia and Azerbaijan last year,
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ALL STRIFE in the Soviet Union involving nationalism is CAST AS A
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PRIMITIVE BLOOD FEUD.
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Meanwhile, the real story is being obscured. The real story about
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both Eastern Europe and the USSR is not what the collapse of
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communism has UNLEASHED, but what IT HAS DESTROYED.
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It is the ECONOMIC CATASTROPHE left in communism's wake that is
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creating most (though not all) of the havoc in the East.
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And West. WE SHALL NOT BE IMMUNE. Indeed, after bleeding white
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with an arms race these past 45 years, the last kick in the teeth
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from the old communist empire will be the ECONOMIC BURDEN OF BAILING
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THEM OUT. The formerly-communist economies are PRIMITIVE BEYOND
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IMAGINATION.
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It is the ECONOMIC HIROSHIMA that communism has created, and NOT THE
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NATIONALISTIC PASSIONS it unsuccessfully tamped, that represents the
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most urgent threat to order and peace.
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And the WORST WAY TO RESPOND is by SUPPORTING European communism's
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last tribune : Mikhail Gorbachev.
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Jerry W. Decker.........Ron Barker...........Chuck Henderson
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