ijk@hou5e.UUCP (12/20/83)
>From a small article in today's NY Times (p. 3), the AP reports that 3
dissidents in Estonia (one of the republics in the USSR) were sentenced.
Reportedly ... "The prosecution said the three had signed appeals and
protests with anti-Soviet content, including an open letter to Soviet
and Scandinavian leaders on a nuclear-free zone in northern Europe,
and a congratulatory telegram to Lech Walesa."
Gee, and here I thought from all the NICE articles people had posted that
the Soviet Union was such a great place to live in.
(is :-) really necessary????????????????????)
Ihor Kinal
ATTIS, Holmdel NJ
P.S. From my name, you can tell I'm Ukrainian. The Ukraine has had
a long history of being under Mocowvite repression. My grandparents
on my mother's side were sent to Siberia because they were part of the
elite bourgeois (translation, they were schoolteachers). Although
Stalin is dead, remember that old habits die hard (and in many cases
these are habits going back to the days of the Mongol invasion & rule
of Moscow in the 13th-15th centuries.) Furthermore, although Khruschev(sp?)
nominally repudiated Stalin, remember that K. got canned himself, and
that Stalin is no longer unmentionable in the USSR. I have yet to see
ANY evidence that the USSR has lost its techniques of repression, much
less conclusive evidence.