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From: tim@unc.UUCP (Tim Maroney)
Newsgroups: net.politics
Subject: Re: Rick Sample
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Date: Tue, 20-Sep-83 13:25:42 EDT
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Posted: Tue Sep 20 13:25:42 1983
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    The Soviet Union is a rotten country.  We all know this.  Let's
not forget, though, that when our system was only as old as theirs is
now, we owned many slaves and were committing genocide on the Indians,
not to mention being extremely expansionistic.  I am not apologizing
for the Soviets' behavior; I am expressing my disgust at the
ridiculously self-righteous anti-Soviet slogans so many people are
spouting these days.  If we judged ourselves by the same standards we
judged others, then this self-righteousness might vanish, and we
actually might be able to get something done with the real Soviet
Union, not the shadow union we have devised.

    Many would like to destroy the Soviet Union now.  If their
standards are honest, they would also have wanted to destroy the
United States in the nineteenth century.

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Tim Maroney
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The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill