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From: rlr@pyuxn.UUCP
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Subject: Re: Re: USSR Downs Plane -- What Can We Do? - (nf)
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Date: Fri, 9-Sep-83 12:52:25 EDT
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Posted: Fri Sep  9 12:52:25 1983
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WRT denying all credit and money to the Communist "bloc", I believe that the
current thinking is that this would provoke the Soviets into doing something
extremely drastic (like nuking major cities), rather than getting them to
cooperate with the west.

What really scares me about this whole affair is an interview with Zbigniew
Brezninski  (close?)  last night on ABC's Nightline program.  I only saw a
snippet of it, so others who saw more should probably comment further.
Brezninski made a series of comments about *the inferiority of the Russian
people as a race*, their need to cover up and lie, dating back even before
Communist rule there.  He gave two examples.  The first involved Soviet
denials of their massacre of Polish officers during WWII.  The second involved
Russian naval vessels in 1905 during the Russo-Japanese War.  Traveling through
the North Sea on their way to the Pacific (???) to fight the Japanese, they
sank several British fishing vessels, denied it, and then claimed that they
were attacked by Japanese warships in the North Sea.

The believability of these stories is not the issue.  The important factor
here is the tone in which Brezninski spoke.  He degraded the Russian people
as a race.  He called them innately inferior (or having feeling of innate
inferiority).  This sounds to me like war mongering, race hatred, etc.
In other words, all of the fascistic tools that are used to incite the
population with war fever.  If memory serves, Brezninski was an advisor to
the Carter administration, and is not associated with the current
administration, so that makes this notion ever scarier.  Any comments?