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From: brad@looking.UUCP (Brad Templeton)
Newsgroups: can.politics
Subject: Re: Better DEAD than RED
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Date: Tue, 11-Jun-85 00:00:00 EDT
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Posted: Tue Jun 11 00:00:00 1985
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Summary: 

Chris Shaw suggests that the threat of soviet domination is low, and that
nobody wants to rule the world anymore.

This is very tempting to believe, but it was just put forward as a statement,
and not backed up with much.

I realize Russia is a long ways away, but remember that the official
Soviet policy is world domination.  They make no bones about it.  Their
declared official goal is World Communism.  They will also tell you that
to bring about World Communism, the dictatorship of the proletariat must
take over first, normally with a revolution.  Then, in theory, the dictatorship
lasts long enough to spark true communism, then withers away.  And of course,
we see that happening in the USSR right now. 8-)

If you think the soviets don't like taking over countries any more, have
a chat with somebody who was in Czechoslovakia in 1968.  I have, and it
was one of the most harrowing tales I have heard.  Tanks in the street,
hiding from bullets behind windows.  Narrow escape, moving at night.

Now, if this had been the last affair in 17 years, I might believe they
were softening up, be we all know what happened before the Moscow Olympics.

The U.S. has its imperialist moments too, but the Manifest Destiny/Monroe
Doctrine stopped being official policy a long time ago.  Not so the USSR.
Anyway, the U.S.'s imperialist actions don't excuse the U.S.S.R.  In fact,
they simply show how a nation that is highly sensative to public opinion
can still be imperialist and get away with it.  What do you think the
Soviets can get away with? 

If the Sandanistas had defences, would the U.S.
attack them?

It wan't too long ago they tried to take West Berlin - only a strong west
ready to airlift saved those people.

After WWII, the Russians took over weakened countries left right and
centre.  Do you suggest that they stopped because they suddenly became
nice?
-- 
Brad Templeton, Looking Glass Software Ltd. - Waterloo, Ontario 519/884-7473