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Subject: Re: Re: Uses of fear - (nf)
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ucbesvax!turner    Dec 18 13:58:00 1983

/***** ucbesvax:net.politics / mit-eddie!zrm /  2:43 am  Dec 18, 1983*/

    Indeed, if you are really curious as to how the average computer hacker
    might be treated in the Soviet Union, you might consider enrolling in
    one of the cultural or academic exchange programs that still exist. I am
    told that their popularity has declined and so it is much easier to get
    in.

    Cheers,
    Zig

Good advice, if you can be *very* discreet.  However, be advised that two
friends of mine who have taken advantage of such programs carry a burden of
guilt: during or after their stays, some of the people (students) they had
befriended were incarcerated in mental hospitals.  They were released after
a week or so.  But still, in view of Valeri Tarsis' accounts [1], those
hospitals must be real "Cuckoo's Nests".  My friends also report that things
are, if anything, worse under Andropov.  (They weren't in C.S., by the way.)
---
Michael Turner (ucbvax!ucbesvax.turner)

[1] "Ward 7", a novelization of this dissident's experiences of Kruschev's
    more "humane" post-Stalinist policies.