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From: ray@rochester.UUCP (Ray Frank)
Newsgroups: net.politics
Subject: Re: More double standards
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Date: Wed, 20-Nov-85 09:59:33 EST
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> 
> As most all journalists and experts on the Soviet Union would attest,
> the vast, vast majority of residents of the USSR do not want any
> other system of government than the one they have right now.
> Democratic sentiments have less support than bringing Stalinism
> back.
> 

Ya can't miss nothin ya never had!  

> Why then do some continue to maintain that Russians have an empire
> over the other Soviet republics?  I don't get it.
> 
> Tony Wuersch
> {amd,amdcad}!cae780!ubvax!tonyw

Have you ever wondered how the Soviet Union came to be the largest country
in the world?  How about expansionism?  Aggression?  They've  built up their
empire for the past 700 years.  In a few hundred years, do you think East
Germany, Poland, etc. will be any more viable or distinct than the Ukraine
or Georgia is now?  Those countries most likely witll be gradually incorpor-
ated into the Soviet system to such a degree that people a hundred years
from now will say:  "What Soviet empire?   Poland, East Germany, etc. are a
part of mother Russia."   I wonder if people then will still be saying; "Ya,
but look what the U.S. did to the Indians,  too bad the U.S. is not a peace
loving, non-aggressive country like Russia."

ray

Prussia?  What's that, a new Unix editor?