Soviet Union

Press, 17 June 1986, Page 16

Soviet Union

Sir,—While flattering my own degree of absorption of the “Marx-Engels dialectic,” K. Heinz (June 12) could do with some of that absorption himself. He might then avoid the gaffe of attributing to my “socialist utopias,” as he calls them, such people as Hitler, Idi Amin and Pol Pot, products of German imperialism, British imperialism and the Maoist aberration, respectively. Nor is Germany divided by a "communist wall.” The division of Germany is owed to the United States, Britain and France combining their occupied zones of Germany into the West German State and, in 1949, incorporating it into N.A.T.O. The countries which K. Heinz lists as Moscow’s “colonial empire” are, in fact, countries which have sensibly abandoned capitalism for socialism, freeing themselves from economic, military and cultural domination by the United States. A true colony in Europe is West Germany, whose Government cravenly yields to any demand made of it by the Reagan Administration. — Yours, etc., M. CREEL. June 12, 1986.