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From: faustus@ucbvax.ARPA (Wayne Christopher)
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Subject: Re: Star Wars Defense Plan
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Date: Tue, 11-Sep-84 01:06:28 EDT
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> Does anyone have any GOOD ideas about how these matters should be handled ?
> To me it is clear that any talk about disarmament is simply utopian as long
> as the elderly boys brought up during WW2 are in control in the kremlin.

This brings up an interesting point -- how, if at all, will
Soviet policies change when the younger generation (the ones
that didn't experience WW2) comes into power? Will they be more
pacifistic and non-expansionist, because they don't have the 
memory of Russia being invaded and many Russians being killed by
Westerners, or will they be more agressive because they don't
have the memory of the horrors of war restraining them?

	Wayne