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From: rupp@cod.NOSC.MIL (William L. Rupp)
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Subject: Re: UUCP - USSR
Message-ID: <866@cod.NOSC.MIL>
Date: Wed, 21-Oct-87 11:55:53 EDT
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Posted: Wed Oct 21 11:55:53 1987
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Reply-To: rupp@cod.nosc.mil.UUCP (William L. Rupp)
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In article <8751@shemp.UCLA.EDU> khayo@MATH.UCLA.EDU (Erazm J. Behr) writes:
>In article <2052@encore.UUCP> fay@encore.UUCP (Peter Fay) writes:
>(...)
>>1. The U.S. State Dept. (and of course FBI, CIA) wants to prevent all
>>contact possible between people of the U.S. and socialist countries. This
>>contact seriously undermines publicity campaigns against them in the U.S.,
>>and thus makes U.S. foreign policy more difficult to justify.
>>are merely blinded by ignorance and naivete.
>   Go tell Academician Sakharov this.
>   Tell it to the Jewish refuseniks.
>   Go to Bulgaria, burn your US papers & apply for a passport.
>   In case you were simply joking, my sense of humor has been
>severely tested.
>
> 
etc., etc., etc.
>          >>>>--------------->         khayo@MATH.ucla.edu 

Bravo! Bravo! Bravo!  My God, is it really that difficult to look at the
Soviet Union (as opposed to the Russian people) and the West and not see
the differences?!  I think we should try as much as possible to make
contact with ordinary Soviet Citizens.  At the same time, we should not
harbor any illusions regarding the cultural and political differences.

As a corrective exercise, I suggest that doubters contrive to get
themselves arrested (preferably for a really nasty crime) in both the
U.S. and the U.S.S.R.   If you do, please write up your impressions of
how the two legal systems work with respect to the rights of accused
persons!

Bill 
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