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From: gjk@talcott.UUCP (Greg Kuperberg)
Newsgroups: net.politics
Subject: Re: The sun does shine
Message-ID: <357@talcott.UUCP>
Date: Fri, 15-Mar-85 11:22:38 EST
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Posted: Fri Mar 15 11:22:38 1985
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Mr. Berman <678@ihopb.UUCP> writes:
> Although it may come as a shock to some folks on the net, but
> we have it on very high authority that the sun indeed does
> shine in the Soviet Union:
> 
>    "The government of the USSR is very solid [and] firmly in place.
>     We would like to think that everyone there would like to revolt
>     but that is simply not the fact. Most of the Soviet people are
>     happy."
>                   -Thomas J. Watson, Jr

These three statements are all true, but in an odd sort of way.  Although
we would like to think that everyone there wants to revolt, "we" (or rather
many of us) realize that this is not so.  Although the Soviet people are
more or less happy, they are not happy about their government.  They have
grown accustomed to having no control over their government.  They think of
it as they think of the weather.  The weather may be horrible, but it's not
something one can change.
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			Greg Kuperberg
		     harvard!talcott!gjk

"No Marxist can deny that the interests of socialism are higher than the
interests of the right of nations to self-determination." -Lenin, 1918