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...yearning for some spiritual revolution that will throw off Communist rule and replace it at least temporarily with an ill-defined "authoritarian order founded on love of one's fellowman." The Soviet Union's other giant of opposition, Physicist Andrei Sakharov, has been promulgating a very different sort of dissent lately from his internal exile in the industrial city of Gorky. Sakharov is a liberal in the Western mold, a believer in pluralist democracy. But neither alternative seems to reflect the aspirations of the Soviet masses. For all their admirable courage, the few thousand Soviet dissidents still at large have...
...reason for the man in the street's aversion to dissent is that political troublemakers historically have very often ended up in prison, or dead. Six decades of totalitarianism have made most Soviet citizens submissive. As a consequence of the U.S.S.R.'s current social and economic ills, there is even a certain amount of popular sentiment that the leadership is not cracking down hard enough...
...forceful a channel for maverick ideas as literature. Nevertheless, state approval governs every aspect of the production, exhibition, sale and discussion of painting and sculpture. The essence of totalitarianism is that there must be no gaps in the monolith, nowhere for culture to create its models of dissent...
Young people opposed to registration have not avoided their responsibility to dissent within the system. Hundreds of thousands have demonstrated legally. Others have lobbied on Capitol Hill, or written letters to Washington...
...American historical memory is not that long. The main reason for the aversion now is the wound of Viet Nam. Especially in an election year, politicians get sweating palms when they think of reawakening all the vivid and articulate rages that Viet Nam called forth, all the dissent that finally calmed in 1973 after the children of the middle class were no longer in danger of flying home in body bags. The more recent proposal merely to register for the draft has mobilized not only passions and demonstrations, but also an effective lobby on campuses and elsewhere in the past...