Advertisement about the Soviet Union
Sir, — The New Zealand League of Rights’ thesis, set out in an advertisement (“The Press,” March 20) Afghanistan: are we next? contains some truth in that' Russia is encouraging the establishment of governments sympathetic to it However, the list of States said to have turned com, munist since 1917 is specious. Armenia and such places, taken in 1920, were not independent entities but historic Russian provinces lost in World War I. In the ’4os the West accepted the establishment of Soviet satellites as the native communists had been the most effective Nazi foes in World War 11. To say that Algeria, Tanzania and Libya are Mar-xist-Leninist is an over-sim-plification, while Nicaragua is non-communist. Rhodesia’s path is as yet undecided. Castro and a small armed band took Cuba; the doctor’s Russian links came later. In what way did Russia support Idi Amin’s atrocities? The League of Rights does not realise that when spurious “facts” support an argument, the accuracy of the whole argument must be in doubt. — Yours, etc., RICHARD N. GREENAWAY. March 20, 1980.
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