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From: orb@whuts.UUCP (SEVENER)
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Subject: Re: the Monolithic Communist Conspir:re to Jan
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Date: Tue, 3-Dec-85 08:34:00 EST
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 Jan made the following statement refuting my contention
that the myth of a monolithic Communist conspiracy has been used
for years (and still is) to justify American militarism:
> 
> Never heard, or read *anyone* saying that. Reagan's "evil empire"
> rhetoric was specifically directed at the USSR. 
> 
 
OK, Jan, here is the direct quote:
"Let us be aware that while they [the Soviets] preach the supremacy
of the state, declare its omnipotence over individual man, and
predict its eventual domination of all peoples of the earth-
they are the focus of evil in the modern world." 3/8/83
 
Or here's another statement by Reagan made in response to Ted
Koppel's question about whether he still thought the Soviet 
Union was an evil empire:
Reagan:" I have often quoted Lenin's statement that:
    "We will take Eastern Europe.  We will organize the
     hordes of Asia.  And then we will move into Latin
     America and we won't have to take the United States;
     it will fall into our outstretched hands like
     overripe fruit." "
 
Is this quite clear, Jan?  Not only did Reagan obviously refer to
the Soviet Union and their designs to take over the US, I have
found my colleagues totally believing that Lenin made such
a statement.  They believe it is utterly plausible.
They also know nothing about Austria's neutrality, the independence
of Yugoslavia, Rumania, and Albania: no American is taught these
things, the complications of the real world as opposed to the
simplistic myth of "Democracy" vs "Communism".
      tim sevener  whuxn!orb