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From: al@ames.UUCP (Al Globus)
Newsgroups: net.politics
Subject: Re: Letters for Peace
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Date: Fri, 13-Jul-84 22:27:39 EDT
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Posted: Fri Jul 13 22:27:39 1984
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>>If you think that your Letters for Peace are going to get
>>through the Soviet mail system, then your very naive.  Once
>>they get wind of the project, (now that you have told them
>>on the net), they will simply burn your letters.  They have
>>a bad habit of opening mail over there, it's legal you see.

>The Soviets may not destroy a letter, if they think it will
>serve Soviet propaganda.  They may even publish it.
>-- 

You guys have rather naive ideas about how efficient the Soviet system
is.  If you send enough letters a lot will get through.  Also, although
the Soviet regime is definitely repressive, it's not quite as bad as RR
would have us believe (although Stalin in the 30's got close).  I was there
in 68 and had one or two discussions with the locals where they complained
about their government without looking over their shoulder.  Incidentally,
the Russian people are about as nice as they come, and they LOVE Americans.
Now if only they could get their government under control ....