tan@ihlpg.UUCP (Bill Tanenbaum) (03/06/86)
> [Leo Simon] > With this posting I am saying Goodbye to this net.group. But it's not > that I am changing jobs or anything like that. For the last few months > I just get sick and tired of reading the articles written by people who > know next to nothing about what they are writing. I am talking about > people who would be much better off in the Soviet Union then in a > democratic country. People who compare everyday abuses of human rights > in the USSR with police actions protecting property owners from > abusers. Who speak favorably of Communist regimes in the world without > having a slightest idea of what it is. And the less knowledge, the > more noise. > > When I began reading this net.group, I couldn't believe that there were > so many people who blame America for every misfortune in the world. > Really, their buddies in the Kremlin couldn't have a better allies! A > few days ago I ran across a Soviet daily "Pravda". What Tim Sevener, > Piotr Berman, Larry Kolodney, et. al. keep saying every day about the > USA, it's mass media, it's government, policy, etc., just repeats the > articles about the USA in this newspaper. > Many years ago Lenin said about people like these: "We need useful > idiots in the West. They will do more damage to capitalist countries > then we can". He was right. Here on this net.group there are more > people like that then in any place else. I have been living in the USA > for four years now and have not met personally anybody with so > pro-Soviet views. But here on net.politics.... > > BTW, I started reading this net.group a few months before the > Presidential election. I didn't like the most of opinions then, but > everybody is entitled to one. What confused me was, in my view, a > complete misinterpretation of what was going in the country. Then, > just a few days before the election, somebody on the .group took a poll. > Almost 80% of the group said that they would vote for Mondale. A few > days later Regan won a landslide victory. It showed me how "good" a > representation of American public is this net.group. Thank G_d, most > of the Americans do have common sense! I quit then and started again > recently after somebody forwarded me an article about Soviet Jews -- > the subject that is close to me. A few months of going through this > again is enough. This time I am quitting for good. ----------- 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