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Subject: Re: TDA and the Soviets - (nf)
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Date: Thu, 24-Nov-83 04:29:14 EST
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uiuccsb!eich    Nov 23 23:42:00 1983

/***** uiuccsb:net.politics / ihuxm!berman /  5:39 pm  Nov 22, 1983 */
Concerning ABC's film on Nuclear War "The Day After," Michael R. Zboray writes:

>But now who is going to show this film to the 10 - 20 million 
>communist party members of the USSR?
>Who is going to make it frightfully clear to them that this is 
>ridiculous?
    [Whatever one's view of the USSR is, can it be disputed
     that the Soviet government and people are painfully
      aware of the effects of war? We are talking of a nation
      that was literally ravaged by WWII with a loss of 20 million
      people...touching literally every family in the USSR.
      In the USSR one never hears or reads
      the kind of insane and chauvenistic
      "nuke the bastards" crap that one hears in
         so often in the USA]

Au contraire.  In the Soviet Union one hears a great deal of insane
and chauvinistic crap about the "Great Patriotic War."  The 20 million
dying to defend their homes got a far better deal than the 20 million
Stalin killed.  World War II is viewed with nationalist nostalgia by
White Russians.  So stop repeating nonsense picked up from Georgi
Arbatov or Joe Oblomov, or whichever Kremlin flunky it was who tried to
put this one over on Ted Koppel.  See Hedrick Smith's "The Russians."