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...coil bacteria are normally present in the human digestive tract, and some scientists fear experimental cells escaping from the laboratory could infect otherwise healthy people...
Given the Soviet Preoccupation with centralized government and control, it is also possible that the leadership fears that any revival of Jewist-cultural or religious activities may infect the other nationalities living in the Soviet Union with a renewed sense of national (as opposed to Soviet) identity. This consideration grows more important with time, since the total population of minority nationalities is about to surpass that of the ethnic Russians, who dominate the central government. Whatever the motivation, the fact remains that current Soviet policy has largely suppressed and threatens to eliminate the religious, linguistic and cultural heritage...
...Moscow's worst-case scenario, the "Polish disease" might infect other East bloc countries and the Ukraine, posing a threat to the future of the Soviet empire...
...that God will accept me." To avoid contamination, he dictated the letter by shouting on the moor to a visiting clergyman. Mompesson did not die. Three years after the plague subsided, he was reassigned to the village of Eakring, where the residents at first feared that he might still infect them...
According to Western observers, there are two apparent reasons for the Soviets' self-imposed isolation. First, to keep impressionable young recruits from fraternizing with the Poles, who were deemed liable to infect their visitors with "subversive" ideas even before the current outbreak of labor unrest. Second, to protect the Soviets from possible abuse at the hands of the Polish people, who have harbored deep-seated anti-Russian feelings ever since Catherine the Great absorbed a large part of their country in the eighteenth century. Acts of violent hostility against the Soviet soldiers are unheard of, but the resentment against...