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From: jamesd@percival.UUCP (James Deibele)
Newsgroups: comp.society.futures
Subject: Re: UUCP to Russia
Message-ID: <959@percival.UUCP>
Date: Wed, 28-Oct-87 15:16:44 EST
Article-I.D.: percival.959
Posted: Wed Oct 28 15:16:44 1987
Date-Received: Sat, 31-Oct-87 14:06:18 EST
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Summary: I read what you said-did you?

In article <8710271119.aa21258@note.nsf.gov> fbaube@NOTE.NSF.GOV (Fred Baube) writes:
>>>As I understand it, Finland has something less of a knee-jerk "Commies!
>
>Let us not attribute boundless evil to the Soviets. Someone check
>me on this, but my impression is that Finland is a (the only ?)
>country the Soviets gave a more than fair shake to.  The Soviets
>invaded Finland in the thirties, and the Finns made monkeys out
>of them.  For whatever reason, after the war the Soviets were not
>as greedy as they could have been regarding territory claims,
>navy :-).  They could have taken more, but perhaps figured
>there's no point in humiliating a rebellious province (1917) that
>serves as a window to the West.

Interesting.  The Soviets are not "boundlessly evil" because they didn't
take the whole country, just part.  What would they have to do to be 
"boundlessly evil"?  Kill millions of their citizens?  Invade neighboring
countries?  Throw citizens in prison for the crime of wishing to leave?
Use artists and scientists as guinea pigs for psychological drugs?  And
so forth and so on.
 
You attribute selfish reasons to the Soviets for letting go of part of
Finland---that they want an area where computers, etc. can be more easily
slipped past export controls, where they have to put in yet another army
of Occupation, where they have to worry about uprisings.  None of that
sounds very nice to me...
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