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Since the first Soviet INF proposal of October, 1979 the USSR has tried to prevent or at least reduce the planned deployment of 572 American missiles in Europe. By trying to prevent or limit Undeployment of the U.S. missiles scheduled for basing in Europe the Soviets are trying to preserve the military and political significance of the Soviet INF threat to West Germany. The traditional Soviet preoccupation with Germany, and with the possibility of German reunification is evident in Soviet policies to ward other arms control and security issues in Europe...
First he calls the Spartacist League "Stalinist," although he knows full well that they are Trotskyists, and that they call for a political revolution in the USSR to replace the bureaucracy them. Leon Trotsky, he will remember, died in 1940 from a blow to the skull with an ice-pick, delivered by an agent of the GPU. Do Trotskyist organizations like the Spartacist League receive support from Moscow, from...
...economic woes, environmental and energy concerns and alliance relations. Ronald Reagan's principal foreign policy problem has been his single-minded reliance on anti-Soviet bluster; instead, a policy of constructively engaging the Soviets by paying attention to issues like human rights and Third World concerns would force the USSR to come to grips with America. And that--not blindly muttering "Nuclear freeze!" over and over again--is the way to bring the Soviets to the bargaining table to engineer real arms reductions...
Nuclear deterrence operates on the belief that war can be avoided if each side (the U.S. and the USSR) is able to deter the other from starting a nuclear war with the threat of retaliation. If the United States has sufficient arsenals to respond to an attack from the Soviet Union, the Soviet Union will be reluctant to start a war which would lead to its own devastation...
...Soviet Viewpoint is without question a valuable addition to the literature on U.S. Soviet relations. For detente to be successful. Americans and Russians must come to a better understanding of each other's positions. Even a peek at what Soviet leaders are thinking increases our comprehension of the USSR. And in some small but useful way, the cause of detente is thereby furthered