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From: pss@unh.UUCP (Paul S. Sawyer)
Newsgroups: talk.politics.soviet,comp.misc
Subject: Re: USSR International Computer Club
Summary: Nobody said it was a great place...
Message-ID: <891@unh.UUCP>
Date: 25 Jan 89 22:01:03 GMT
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In article <8901241514.AA04102@decwrl.dec.com>, simon@hpstek.dec.com (Curiosier and curiosier...) writes:
>  
> It may sound all too well, but are you aware that the ordinary Soviet 
> citizens may not own computer printers.  It is illegal and punishable by 
> law to a few years in prison.  Do you still want to promote computer 
> contacts with the Soviet Union?


And will discouraging those contacts GET THEM THOSE PRINTERS?

By encouraging the contacts, SOME information MIGHT spill over to their
"ordinary citizens" eventually, but WITHOUT such contacts it would seem
that it could not.


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