Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 6/24/83; site ttidcb.UUCP Path: utzoo!linus!philabs!ttidca!ttidcb!robertsb From: robertsb@ttidcb.UUCP (Robin Roberts) Newsgroups: net.politics Subject: Re: Closed eyes to the raping of a nation Message-ID: <212@ttidcb.UUCP> Date: Sat, 17-Nov-84 17:44:10 EST Article-I.D.: ttidcb.212 Posted: Sat Nov 17 17:44:10 1984 Date-Received: Sun, 18-Nov-84 22:37:15 EST References: <4166@tekecs.UUCP> Organization: TTI, Santa Monica, CA. Lines: 35 The referenced article discussed the fact that a newspaper report described a large group of Afghan children being sent out of Afghanistan for a 10 year program of "education". A recent issue of _Soldier_of_Fortune_ printed an interview with a young Afghan boy ( who, they were told by the Afghan rebels who had arrested him, was FOURTEEN years old ) accused of collaborating with ( spying for -- its all semantics ) the Afghan secret police. The boy had been sent to the Soviet Union for "education" and there had been taught to smoke, drink and lose his virginity. The idea was to break all cultural and religious patterns that he may have. Supposedly his parents were Afghan Communists. He had been given away by the Soviet issue pistol he had been given by his secret police contacts. According to the interviewer the Afghan rebels were quite disgusted by his actions as he was quite a sinner by their cultural standards. ( This is a culture where the rebels caught some youth with some pornography, quite tame by even our standards, and executed them. The rebels have a strong Moslem religious streak. One of the rebel leaders is a descendant of the Prophet. ) There are parallels in the Greek Civil War of the 1940's ( read _Eleni_ ), and elsewhere. I think that most of the contributors to this newsgroup have little understanding of the tactics of Soviet-sponsored "revolutions" and are in fact quite out of their league to comment on them. -- Robin D. Roberts (213) 450 9111 x 2916 TTI Zone V4 aka Buskirk the Valerian 3100 Ocean Park Blvd Death to Tyrants ! Santa Monica, CA 90405 UUCP: ..!ucbvax!ihnp4!vortex!ttidca!ttidcb!robertsb or {cadovax,flick,philabs,randvax,trwrb,vortex,wtux2}!ttidca!ttidcb!robertsb or ttidca!ttidcb!robertsb@RAND-UNIX.ARPA