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From: wetcw@pyuxa.UUCP
Newsgroups: net.politics,btl.general
Subject: Re: BTL Takes the Lead
Message-ID: <348@pyuxa.UUCP>
Date: Tue, 15-Nov-83 12:01:28 EST
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Posted: Tue Nov 15 12:01:28 1983
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I am at a loss to understand how anyone can advocate a one-sided
nuclear freeze given events over the past 50 odd years.  Soviet
leaders, from Stalin to Andropov, have been following the Marxist
line without deviation throughout this span of history.  From the
subjugation and massacure of the Ukrainian people to the supplying
of SAM missles to the Syrian military, they have not wavered from
Marx's dream of world domination.  Nothing has happened
within the last 20 years that seems to have changed this goal.

Have you forgotten the Korean airliner, Afganistan, new SAM missles
in Lebenon, Soviet arms caches in Grenada, poison rain in Cambodia,
the assasination attempt on the Pope, the assasination of four
Korean ministers, the jailing of dissidents, the sujegation of
soviet jews, the closing of all of their borders over the past
40 years, the stalling and disruption of every arms talk
conference, the stationing of soviet subs off the east and west
coasts, the use of Cuba as a surrogate revolutionary tool, the
twisting of the truth about world events, and on and on in
every facet of human life.  Wouldn't it be nice if the same
Times ad could be run in Isvetia (fat chance). 

The naive of the world are going to have to wake up and smell
the coffee.  The Soviet Union is not going to come to the
barganing table as long as they in a position of power over
the West.  Nuclear disarmament is not going to become the
act of the day because we wish it to happen.  The Soviet 
leaders only seem to understand and recognize power.  We have
to somehow convince them that we are not going to negotiate
from a position of weakness.  Therefore, as sad as it is,
we must maintain a position of strength or throw in the
towel which would mean there would be no more dialogues
such as this.