Poland
Sir,—ln a self-damning admission. H. F. Newman (January 19) not only reveals how pathetic a "young socialist" he was in the 19305. but in using the plural “we." gratuitously slanders many genuine and staunchly loyal socialists of that era whose support for the Soviet Union then, and does to this day. rest on more honest and honourable principles than the expediency, on his own showing, on which he purportedly supported the Soviet Union in the 19305. A justifiable doubt that H. F. Newman's knowledge of the Soviet Union now is any deeper than it was then, is strongly suggested by his erroneous belief that the Soviet Union’s social system “has degenerated into State capitalism with a new, elite class and the evils of worker exploitation and military expansion." The Soviet Union as the first workers’ socialist State is continually deepening and broadening its systems socialist base.—Yours, etc., M. CREEL. January 19, 1982.
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