Fruits of Russian reform. (Letters to the Editor).In response to the recent article by William F. Jasper on Vladimir Putin and the war in Chechnya ("Putin: Ally or Terrorist?" February 25th), I wish to congratulate THE NEW AMERICAN on continuing to speak the truth regarding the Soviet-Russian reform process. I know what it is like to try and speak against the storm wave of media opinion that in the last decade soaked the American public in propaganda that Communism is dead. However, as time marches on it becomes increasingly difficult to make people understand that what transpired has not evolved into anything genuine, as some have come to believe. It was to answer this question more effectively that I journeyed twice in the past two years to the former USSR USSR: see Union of Soviet Socialist Republics. to study at length the impact of the strategic disinformation dis·in·for·ma·tion n. 1. Deliberately misleading information announced publicly or leaked by a government or especially by an intelligence agency in order to influence public opinion or the government in another nation: strategy. Last summer in the city of Nizhny Novogorod, while I was in Moscow, voters elected a Communist as mayor by a nearly sixty percent majority. The election was watched on national news all over Russia, while I doubt much word of it reached the West. Russia's "free market" is a scam. It consists primarily of two big players. The first is major Russian corporations and industries, sold off to Soviet apparatchiks (many of whom have mafia ties). The second is foreign business, which is primarily responsible for the glitziness of downtown Moscow and St. Petersburg. There are still elements of dictatorship. Only two percent of all criminal trials are jury trials, with the rest being before a panel of three judges with the defendant placed in an animal cage in Verb 1. cage in - confine in a cage; "The animal was caged" cage detain, confine - deprive of freedom; take into confinement the courtroom. North Koreans have been used in recent years as slave labor to pay off Pyongyang's debts to Moscow. And Russia's moral fabric is being seriously degraded with the influence of pornography having reached the level of decadence in Western Europe and going past that which currently infects the United States. The "fruits" of Soviet-Russian reform have been economic destruction, decadence, and despair. Following Christ's admonition Any formal verbal statement made during a trial by a judge to advise and caution the jury on their duty as jurors, on the admissibility or nonadmissibility of evidence, or on the purpose for which any evidence admitted may be considered by them. that we judge a tree by its fruits, this alone should be reason to conclude that the West has been deceived, and that the KGB KGB: see secret police. KGB Russian Komitet Gosudarstvennoy Bezopasnosti (“Committee for State Security”) Soviet agency responsible for intelligence, counterintelligence, and internal security. is still in charge. JOHN WELDON Playa playa or pan or flat or dry lake Flat-bottomed depression that is periodically covered by water. Playas occur in interior desert basins and adjacent to coasts in arid and semiarid regions. Del Rey, California Del Rey is a census-designated place (CDP) in Fresno County, California, United States. The population was 950 at the 2000 census. Geography According to the United States Census Bureau, the CDP has a total area of 3.2 km² (1.2 mi²), all land. |
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