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From: bmac3@ssc-bee.UUCP (Scott Pilet)
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Subject: Re: "We will bury you." -Khruschev
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Date: Tue, 17-Dec-85 12:26:55 EST
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> Khruschev made public what people were afraid to admit to themselves:
> namely the awful crimes which Stalin committed in sentencing millions
> to labor camps and prisons.  Indeed Khruschev turned Soviet policy
> around to such an extent that Solzhenitsyn was granted the Lenin Prize
> for Literature (the highest literary prize in the USSR) for
> "One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovitch" which depicts life in a
> labor camp  for a normal innocent but totally naive Soviet citizen.
> (If you haven't read it, I would recommend it)
>  
Could you elaborate how much of an extant Khruschev turned Soviet policy?
Actions (not public statements), verifications of these actions, and then
the sources supporting these actions?  Have you read other books by 
Solzhenitsyn? What about his opposal to the type of thoughts you express
concerning the Soviets and their policy towards the world?
Have you heard of the "nomenklatura"?  Do you believe a Soviet leader
can radically depart from previous Soviet policy?

> Some of the people in the government now were those sent to Labor camps
> under Stalin.  Those people do not wish to return to such a system.

Please list these government people, their current positions in the Soviet
government, an estimation of their power in the gov't and back up your
assertions with sources.

> After Khruschev was deposed 
When Khruschev was deposed, Kosygin and Breschnev pointed out what
Khruschev did wrong.
>                             however new less brutal methods of
> repression 
to me any form of repression is brutal
>              were put into place: the use of psychiatric hospitals
> to deal with dissent, exile and isolation, demotions from prestigious
> posts.  That the USSR is different now than in Stalin's time is
> shown by the treatment accorded Khruschev himself: although he

Khruschev is the only one to have been accorded such treatment, and
such treatment is very rare.  It is rare in the sense of political
figures in general not only Presidents and General Secretaries

> was ousted from power, he was allowed to continue living in his
> dacha.  Stalin, on the other hand, sent assassins halfway around the
> world to kill his old rival, Trotsky.
>  
> I am not about to condone actions such as breaking up the recent
> vigil in Moscow commemorating the anniversary of the UN's Human
> Rights declaration.  But it is totally inaccurate to say that
> nothing has changed in the Soviet Union since Stalin's time.
>  
It is also totally inaccurate to imply that anything important
has really changed in the Soviet Union since Stalin's time.

>          tim sevener   whuxn!orb

Scott Pilet