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From: tonyw@ubvax.UUCP (Tony Wuersch)
Newsgroups: net.politics
Subject: Re: The sun does shine
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Date: Mon, 18-Mar-85 14:06:38 EST
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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.
> ---
> 			Greg Kuperberg
> 		     harvard!talcott!gjk

Then what should the Soviet people be happy about?  Their economy?

Tony Wuersch