Soviet policy
Sir,—Being an amateur student of military and political history, I find the letters of S. Taylor and V. Wilson (December 28) very naive. Like Orwell (a disillusioned communist), I have come to the conclusion that revolution merely alters the form of
tyranny. Such is the Soviet case. Stability is one of the words I would not use for the U.S.S.R.’s post-revolutionary history, with the paranoid military and political purges of the 1930 s and the murder of Russian peasant farmers to force others into collectives in the 19205. They have always been hostile to surrounding countries. I cite the invasions of Hungary, Czechoslovakia, Afghanistan and Poland (World War 2), the West Berlin blockade (1948) and a border war with China. The Soviets are also good at attacking smaller countries (the Russo-Finnish war) and allying with avowed enemies (Nazi-Soviet non-ag-gression pact, 1940). The Soviets and communism are not god-sends, nor will they ever be—Yours, etc., ADAM BOOT. December 29, 1982.
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