Afghanistan
Sir,—While acknowledging the perceptiveness and courage displayed by Malcolm Moore in liberating his mind from the official line of a “Soviet threat,” as revealed in Garry Arthur’s article (April 24), it is with real regret that one is constrained to point out his continuing acceptance of the official line of a Soviet invasion of Afghanistan. Military aid rendered to a treaty ally can by no stretch of the imagination be termed an invasion. The same applies to the Warsaw Pact alliance formed in 1955. The Hungarian uprising of 1956 was an attempted fascist counter-revolutionary coup. Between March-May, 1919, Hungary was a Soviet republic under Bela Kun. It was crushed by tjie Western Powers and Admiral Horthy’s fascist regime installed. The intervention of the Soviet Army in Hungary, 1956, and Czechoslovakia, 1968, frustrated the overthrow of socialism in those countries, the precise purpose for which the Warsaw Pact was formed. — Yours, etc., M. CREEL. April 25, 1984.
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