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From: berman@psuvax1.UUCP (Piotr Berman)
Newsgroups: net.politics
Subject: Re: Orphaned Responce
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Date: Sat, 8-Mar-86 16:16:32 EST
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> If there is one thing this newsgroup needs, it is people with first hand
> experience of living in Communist countries, particularly the Soviet
> Union.  I, for one, have attempted to rebut ridiculous comparisons
> of human rights abuses in the U. S. with those in the U. S. S. R.
> (e. g. the shopping mall controversy).  However, I cannot explain how
> things are in the USSR with the same accuracy and credibility as you can.
> We'll miss you!
> -- 
> Bill Tanenbaum - AT&T Bell Labs - Naperville IL  ihnp4!ihlpg!tan

OK, I do have first-hand experience.  For posting on the wall I was
treatened with blacklisting (no meaningful job after graduation),
and I know that the treat was not empty.  For exercising free speech
you may be arrested, denied passport etc. etc.  Sometimes you may
be imprisoned for several years.

US is really better than USSR.  But shall this be sufficient?
Shall one apply so easy a yardstick to "the land of the free
and  the home of the brave"? 

Piotr Berman