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From: jho@ihlpa.UUCP (Yosi Hoshen)
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Subject: Re: Reply to Sevener on Property Rights
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Date: Thu, 20-Feb-86 09:28:49 EST
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>From:        tim sevener  whuxn!orb
>                                      At the same time, one must recognize
> that Stalin has been dead for 30 years now.  The instruments of repression
> in the Soviet Union no longer include the wholesale slaughter of Stalinism.
> Instead they include summary arrest, the use of mental hospitals and
> generalized censorship.  They also include restrictions on people's
> rights to distribute literature in public places.

I think that Tim failed to discuss one of the most serious civil
right violation in the USSR.  The USSR severely restricts the
right of its people to emigrate.  If you don't like the US,
you can leave the country.  There are many oppressive governments
on this planet.  Yet, when it comes to emigration, the USSR and 
its satellite nations are at the top of the list.  Basically,
the USSR can be viewed as a giant prison camp for its people.
-- 
Yosi Hoshen, AT&T Bell Laboratories
Naperville, Illinois,  Mail: ihnp4!ihlpa!jho