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...Premier Wojciech Jaruzelski in Moscow last week, Soviet leaders issued their toughest statement on Polish affairs since the outbreak of labor unrest eight months ago. The communique said that the Soviets expected their Polish comrades "to reverse the course of events and liquidate the perils looming over the socialist gains of the nation." The participants in the minisummit, which was presided over by Leonid Brezhnev and attended by five Soviet Politburo members, also declared the "defense" of socialism to be "a matter not only for every single state but for the entire socialist community as well...
...American image to be capitalistic, imperial and elitist while the Soviets are perceived as "pro-people." Says one high Indian source: "The Soviets have not only established contacts among the urban elite, but they have gone to the smaller towns to form Indo-Soviet friendship societies and socialist study groups. The Indian is impressed that the average Soviet is interested in learning our languages. Their cultural officers stay here for years and years." Says another Indian observer: "The best impact ever made by the Americans was a group of high school students who gave a musical performance. They were open...
Other Communist Countries. Brezhnev saw little chance for an early thaw in Moscow's ideological cold war with Peking. But he did recognize a surprising degree of socialist diversity in Eastern Europe, such as Hungary's new system of profit-making farm cooperatives...
Poland. The Kremlin's most worrisome problem naturally loomed large at the congress. Noting that "the Polish comrades are engaged in redressing a critical situation," Brezhnev said that the Soviet Union and its allies "will not abandon fraternal socialist Poland in its hour of need." As Western analysts saw it, Brezhnev was keeping his options open: he had decided not to invade Poland for the moment, but had not ruled out such possible "fraternal" aid in the future. The next day, Polish Party Boss Kania emphasized, almost pleadingly it seemed, that the Poles could solve their own problems...
...course, the premise of the "communist plot" argument is that if there were no socialist nations encouraging the rebels, there would be no revolution. But this assertion completely disregards the miserable conditions the people of El Salvador have lived under for so long. The per capita income of El Salvador does not even reach $700 a year, one of the worst averages in the western hemisphere. Ninety-five per cent of the people cannot read, and the government has made no attempt to reverse the condition of mass illiteracy. Malnutrition runs as high as 60 per cent. The infant mortality...