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States.

6. The invitation to existing continental organizations and ad hoc groups that have demonstrated an interest in peace and justice in thc Central American area, a-s well a-s to international political organizations, so they can express their concurrence with implementa0ion ol the points demanded.
Signed: Godoy, president. boada. Secretary general.

The There are three propositions to Party, ;hrcn i: currently underway in analysis. First, the reality of this Hubertsaga of bhe Harry Trumanthe Humphrey-R,onald Reagan Madrid: The Political parties that have signed ihis Soviet empire, the Cuban colonial Democrats, as Reagan then was a document, inspired by the besb and mosi army, and a transnational strategy for Democrat, in recognizine and identifyconstructive patriotic splrit to achieve Ni- tyranny, Second, the need for revolu- ing leftwing radical elements in their caragua's pacification and ensure ik future tion in Arnerican idea.s, in American own party, in labor unions, and in development based upon ihe Nicaraeuans' political understanding, in American American life, and in fichting them authentic wishes, declare their firm and policies, in American institutions to overtly through argumenls, through public decision to make every efforl to match on the side of freedom this free democratic methods is a saga achie.:e these objectives. AJso supported are the Contadora Group's trarunaiional Soviet imperial threat. which the modern leftwing news Third, the deg:ee to which the Reagan media and academics seek to ienore. efforts recently reiterated in the Caraballeda message issued on 17 January 1986, es- adrninistration as well as the Congress Yet it was a saga whieh helped save peciauy Seclion II, Clause B. and the American people has failed to freedom in the Western World, For this purpose the government is urged understand iniellectually the scale of This proposition's corollary is that a to join lhe people in attaining the following the Soviet trarunational threat and response to transnational tyranry goals within lhe shortest time possible: ]. An agreement to immediately suspend has failed to develop a response of suf- large enough to be successful will be as big, as complex, and as controverhoslilities between the government forces ficient power. Let me expand: First, on proposition sial as the rise of the containment in and the irreenrlar forces opposed to them as Truman-Marshall-Vandenberg a preliminary step toward a definite peace 1 that there is a Soviet empire whose the agreement and the country's demilitariza- threat is real and whose transnational effort. tion. strategy has made obsolete our conMy second special order will oufline 2. Approval of an effective general aru:lespolicies and has made inef- a proposed transnational strategy for ty las' for political crimes and related tainment fective and out-of-date our political, freedorn and the institutional and docconunon crimes that will result in an effective reconciliation of the Nicaraguan family. diplomatic, legal, and military doc- trinal changes it will require. The cen3. Aboiition of fhe state of emergency, and trines and that our difficulty in recog- tral difficulties in proposition two are full reesbablishment and implemenEation of nizing and responding to this transna- essentially intellectual, managerial, tional reality is first intel.lectual and and political. Thai is, once we accept the Nicacaguans' rights and guarrmtees. 4. Signing of an a8TeemenL between the second psychological. the reality in proposition 1 of the countr.v's political parties for 0he preparaSecond proposition, that it is possi- Soviet empire, the Communist Cuban tion and fuliillment of a new elerjtoral proc- ble to design a new transnational colonial army, and a transnational ess that will lead to general lections irl which all of the political pariies or groups strategy of freedom to defeat the strategy for tyranny, our problems in that desire to l)srticipate may do so, once Soviel empire's transnational strategy dealing with that, in responding to it they have ol)tained political and iegal recog- of tyranny, that this new transna- are essentially problems of iltellect, tional strategy of freedom requires a problems of management, and probnition. 5. Effective fulfillment of inlernational revolution in ideas, in doctrine, and in lems of Dolicies. cornmitments in favor of Nicarag:ua's democ- inslitutions coinparable to the 1945 to Proposition 3, tneasured against the ratization. 1950 Truman-Ivlarshall-Vandenberg cycle Erhich defined the Soviet threat to freedom, filled the vacuum of power around the world to contain the Soviet empire, explained pro-democratic anticommunism to the American people so they accepted it, invented the Central
pire's chaUenge the Reagan administration has failed, is failing, and without a dramatic fundamental change in strategy will continue to fail. Let me be clear: f have the ereatest
scale and momentum of the Soviet em-

presented here just a-s Rappaccioli presented it al the Seventh Congress of the Popular A-lliance, the Spanish Conservative

March 21, 1986 free-world response led by the United would expecf for a change of that
scale.

Independent Liberal

Party:

Virgilio

Social Christian Party: f'rancisco Ta-

plan, the Point F our Program, the of communism. He personally underNorth Atlantic Treaty Organization, stands the history of Lenin's adaptacreated the unified Department of Defense, raised the most powerful peacetime forces in American history, began decolonizing the old Western European empires in the Third World, helped erning dictatorship. President Reagan personally knows

respect for President Reagan. I think Intelligence Agency, the Marshall he personally understands the threat

Social Democratic Party: Luis Rivas Leiva,

to the new purposes of a Soviet gov-

tion of czarist secret police oppression

Constltutionalist Liberal Party: Rodolfo Mejia Ubilla, adjunct secretary general. Democratic Conservative Party of Nicaragua tnonruling parCy): Eruique Sotelo 8., national political secretary.
Rappaccioli, national president.

Nicaraguan Coruervative Party: Marjo

FREEDOM'S FT]TUR,E: THE T'REE

WOR.LD AND THE SOVIET

EMPTRE

is recoEnized for 60 minutes.

a previous order of the House, the gentlemarr from Georgia [Mr. Grncnlcn]

The SPEAKER pro tempore. Under

follow is on freedom's future, the free

special order and one other whieh

Mr. CiINGRICH. Mr. Speaker, this

will

Souiet empire, the Soviet trarxnational threat to freedom and security and the necessity for a sophisticated

world and the Soviet empire. I want to focus on the reality of the

Market, develolled a democratic Japan sonally appreciates the threat to Israel and West Germany, used American in a more powerful Soviet empire, the covert aid to defeat communism peace- threat to civilization in a more powerably in Italy and in Flance and used ful Soviet-encouraged network of terAmerican overt aid to help defeat com- rorism, the threat to AJrican freedom munism militarily in Greece and the in fhe Soviet use of the Cuban colonial Philippines, helped integrate our army to impose Communist dictatorWorld War U enemies into a pro-free- ships, the threat to freedom in the dom, anti-Soviet a,lliance and recog- 'Western lfemisphere ttrrough the nized that there really were Soviet Soviet empire's Cuban and Nicaraguan spies, that some people really were se- colonies, and finally that the longcurity risks, and that we really did term persistenee, the massive dedicahave to protect ourselves from en- tion of resources, and the serious proemies within as well as without. fessionalism of the Soviet empire comThese enormous achievements, bhe bined with its development of a transachievements of the Tru-rnan-Mar- national strategy makes it a mortal shall-Vandenberg team were irrunense threat to the survival of America. and the conJlict wibhin American sociFresident Reagan knows all this. Ife ety was a,s vivid and emotional as one ranks with Presidents Truman, Eisen-

there is a Soviet empire and it is a establish Israel, and helped lay the global transnational threat to America seeds of the European Cornrnon and to freedom. President Reagan per-

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hower, Kerrnedy, and Nixon

CONGRISSIONAT RECORD-HOUSE
in trying

588?
Soviet

to focus attention on the Soviet the senior executives in the Cabinet, empire and in trying to protect free- the Department of State, Defense, and dom. Yet President Reagan is clearly the Cenfral Intelligence Agency; not as individuals, not because they do not failinc. Whatever tactical successes he is mean well, I believe they do, not bewinning in El Salvador, in Grenada, or cause they are not serious, I think in rebuilding our defenses, are success- they are, not because they do not work es built on the quicksand of his per- hard, they work terribly hard; it is reasonal popularity. As he himself said sonable for these three fine gentleman last Sunday, he tras less than 3 years to wonder whaf it is that is being leff to serve. Yet there are not the in- asked of fhem. But the answer is stitutional frameworks, the political simple: They are the heads of great inmovemenLs, the massive public educa- stitutions. Those institutioru currently tion that are the necessary permanent do not have an understanding of the base for a true America.n response to transnational Soviet empire, do not the rising Soviet imperial challenge in even use the language that describes the form of a transnational strategy of that empire, have no strategies to defeat the empire in countries the tyranny using Cuban colonial forces, The fact is that George Will, President ha.s identified. The gap between Ronald Fl,eagzr,n's Charles Krauthammer, Irving Krisbol, and Jeane Kirkpatrick are right in United Nations speech in srhich he pointing out the enorrnous gap be- courageously called for support for tween President Reagan's strong rhet- freedom fighters in Afghanistan, Camoric, which is adequate, and his admin- bodia, Ethiopia, Angola, and Nicaraistration's weak policies, which are in- gua, the gap between that speech and the reality of our pathetically incomadequate and will ultimately fail. Sincere, decent, committed anii- petent efforls is a gap that should be a Communlst Members of the Ifouse scandal if oniy we took it seriously. and Senate who quesi,ion $100 million Fourth, the burden be borne by in aid to the NicaraEnran freedom House and Senate Rept'rblicans who fighters and ask in vain for a strategy agree with President Reagan's vision are fundamentally rieht. The Reagan and have not fought hard enough to administration has a huge gap be- force the changes in the executive tween its President's correct visionary branch. We can hardly expect our warnings of the transnational Soviet friends on the left who do not aEree empire and the rest of the executive with this policy or our friends on the branch's incorrect, ineffective fuan- Iefb who do not aree with this poliey blings and inadequaeies. or our friends who are pressured beThe burden of this failure franklY cause as Democrats they believe must be placed first on President Reagan is right, they exist in a caucus Reagan; he is the President. whose majority clearly does not be" In addition, to making good speeches lieve Reagan is right, to lead the way it is his job to ensure that others in forcing the executive branch to design good policies, that they imple- become competent or to lead the way ment them effectively, and that they in articulatinc the ca.se to the Ameriinvent new ones as necessary. He is D 1240 more than just the greatest communiTlre burden must be borne by llouse cator of our time. he is the Fresident and therefore the head of the execu- and Senate Republicans who agree tive branch a.s well a^s the head of his with the President's vision, who are political party. afraid of the transnational Soviet Second, the burden must be on his empire, who understand the CommuWhite House staff, which has system- nist Cuban colonial army, and who unatically failed aeain and again for 5 derstand that what we are doing today years now to understand that the real simply is not good enough, problems of developing a transnaFifth, the burden of responsibility

Third, the failure must be borne by Reagan, the people vlho trnderstand empire, those supporters should be tougher, firmer, harder on us, in insisting that we do a better job, that the measure is whether or not we are

the terrible fhreat of the

for Savimbi. The challenge should

Contras.

capable of defeating the Soviet empire in Angola, not whei;her we mean well
be

cratis pro-Western Governmeut in Nicaragua, not whether we like the

not we help the Afgharu regain their
Sixth, the burden must be borne by the intellectual and cultural community in America, which has been unwilling to deal honestly wiih the Soviet
Army. country, whether we wistr them well as they are butchered by the Soviet

whether or not we can achieve a demo-

The challenge should be whether or

was never used- It was not easy to write an emotional, powerful screen play, to film a powerful movie about population of Cambodia and Iranage to avoid the word "Cornnunist." Yet it is essential to understand why the "Killinc Fields" had rave revlews

that the "I(illing Fields" is a movie about Cambodia in which, according to one critic, the word "Corn:rrunist"

can cultural intellectual community

empire. It said a gteat deal about the Ameri-

of the

the Commurrist genocide of one-third

reshape existing institutions

and

can people.

willing, just as their predecessors were in the twenties and thirties, to apoloto somehow never quite understand or deal directly with the threat of the
SovieI empire. Just as H.G. Wells was taken in by Stalin, all too many American intellectuals and American academics are taken in by Gorbachev. Just as intelgize and excuse Ccmmunist atrocities,

somehov/ pin the blame on America for what was clearly a Communist genocidal action in Cambodia. The Arnerican intellectual and cultural corununilies are all too blind to the threat of communism, are all too

"Rambo" was overtly anti-Conmunist, while the "Kilinc Fields" managed to

from leftwing intellectuals, while "Rambo" was laughed at. The

ment's inability as an institution to meet the challenge of the Soviet

empire.

Reagan speech, much more difficult than a Pat Buchanan editorial, much more difficult than once again using the CIA to ineffec0ively manage to do the best it can when the best it can is simply not good enough. I say this not as in any way a com::cent on any Personality but on an institutional crisis of the first order about American Govemment and the American Govern-

much more fundamental than

tional strategy for freedom of con- must be borne by our own political lectuals in the twenties and thirties fronting the Soviet empire and the supporters who have not held our feet always found one more reason to Cuban colonial arlny are Problens to the fire and who have not focused apologize for the Soviet police shte, so
a

on results rather than intentions. It is au too easy in this complex national capital to be so exhausted by daily crisis that we forget that good in-

today all too many intellectuals and al] too many academics find one more

meaning to do well is not the same as doing well, that thinkinc that doing today's speech is somelrow achieving tomorrow's success. It is not necessarily true. Our supporters across this Nation, the people who were aroused by Gor.nwATER in the sixties, the people who,

state, for Nicaraguan Comnunist tentions are not good results, that atrocities or for the Soviet empire's
wl,lch is critical if a dictatorship is prc.American, but tends to iEnore a dictatorship which is anti-American, whlch uses Soviet language to explain Soviet behavior, which pretends that
atrocities in A-fghanistan, Seventh, and finally, the responsibility must be borne by a news media

excuse

to apologize for Castro's police

for

generations, have believed in Jaruzelski is an independent leader of

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Where is the Sony hand-held anti- Fourth, how can you possibly have helicopter missile that is cheap, user right public understanding of what we friendly and can be trained so that are doing if ycu do not have the right anyone can use it while carrying it in a language, you do not have the right backpack? Where are the inexpensive policies, if you don't have the right inradios that are easy to use that allow stitutions and strategies? light infantry, which is all the guerril- When people listen to the Presilas are, to communieate and stay out dent's strong language and look at the of the reach of the soviets? where is pitiful request for 9100 million, can the light hand-carried radar that they be surprised that there is no allows them to know when the heli- sense of, "Oh, yes, this is urgent"? virtually impossible to get the word copters are coming to set up the anti- "This is like Ftanklin Roosevelt in js a propaganda helicopter missiles to knock down the World War II"? "Sandinista," which

thini- ;learly about it. The failure of right lrords jeads to failure of right policy. Yet, I catr ':1'1j Ilatly on this floor, after 4 y&rc ,if arfuing and talking with three diJferent Nationai Security Advisers, after ';alkine with the Secretary of State, of talking with the Assistant Secretary f.or Latin America, of talking with the Presidential speechwriters, that after 4 long years, it is
sible to

and the English Language,

Civil War in the thirties and the democracies were .ineffective, our rewas repudiated by the Communist sponse in Afghanistan has been pitiwill have to launch a fundamentally Party of Ivlexico in 1934 becarxe he ful, and we should all be ashamed. But then our policy has never been new effort of enormous proportions stood for Nicaragua and against the to be militarily good enough with regaimed, I thin-k, at five sfeps: First, to Soviet empire. The true Sandinisfas are precisely ular light infantry that we could establish right laneuage; second, to establish right policies; third, to estab- the freedom fighters wlro are national- defeat the Soviet Army or drive up bhe lish right institutions and strategies; isbs who were in the countryside who cost dramatically. Where is the diplomatic strategy, fourth, to establish right public under- were fighting against the Communist the public diplomacy, that knits tostanding; and fifth, to establish the dictatorship. gether throughout the Islamic world a right Iegislation. And I believe the So, first, before this administration can do anything else, it has to use the league for the protection of Islam steps come in that order. If bhe State Department has no real correcf language, or else it has no freedom against the Soviet empire? knowledge of Leninism, it can hardly hope of either articulating for the Where are the public policy efforts under;tand ihe Soviet empire. If as re- American people, for our allies or for that should be ongoing every day that cently as last Friday, the Central In- our bureaucracies what it is we intend focus peopir across the world on the fact that even as we speak, there are telligence Agency was not aware that to do. in its own files it had records about a Second, we have to develop right Soviet troops butchering Afghan. Even Cuban general who had served in policies. Right policies, I think, have as we rest this evening, there will be Syria agairxt Israel and who then to be fundamental. ff you do not have Soviet helicopters butchering Afwent to selve in Ango]a against the right policies, you can hardly expect ghans. Even as we have a nice weekfreedom fighters, and was now being to develop the right solution. AJter all, end. there will be Soviet columns assigned to Nicaragua-not, mirrd you, policv is to solution what a cookbook butchering Afghans. We have simply been incompetent in that the CIA did not know who he was recipe is to dinner. With a bad recipe and what he was doing-but it had nob you get a bad dinner; with a bad policy Afghanistan, in Angola, in Ethiopia, in Cambodia and Nicaraflra and we must occurred to the Central Intelligence you are bad to get a bad solution. Agency that the fact that the Cubans The best case is Afghanistan. If one confess it. Third, we lack the right institutions had served against Israel was of rather were to examine seriously the West's considerable importance in explaining efforts to help the Afghan freedom and the right slrategies, There is no institution in America today charged both the Soviet empire and in explain- fighters, the freedom fighters who are ing to our friends who believe and are the most universally supported on this with developing irregular Iight in-fanconcerned deeply about fsrael why the planet, the freedom fighters who have try weapons. There is no institution in Soviet empire and its Communist the best case for their activities, the America today charged with desiening Cuban colonial army is ir, threat for Ireedom fighters wtro are most coura- the tactics and the strategy and the geously sbanding up against the direct doctrine that will defeat Soviet forces the very survival of fsrael, If the State Departme.nt, the De- overt Soviet invasion of their country, or Communist Cuban colonial forces fense Department and the Central In- if we were to look seriously at the in the field. We do not have those intelligence Agency cannilt think of West's efforts to help those freedom stitutions, we have not invented them. using rieht laneuage, then as George fighters, we cannot help but cry at the and without those institutions, we can Orwell put it in his Essay on Politics impotence, the incompetence and the hardly invent the strategies that will
bhe context of all of this, if the Reagan administration is to succeed, it
Sovieb empire.

Now, if the most anti-Conrmunist arplain Soviet behavior, Possibly it ticulator in this administration uses a reached its epitome when ABC News Comm'rnist propaganda term, it pub on a paid Soviet propagandist fol- should not surprise him ihat the bulowing the President of the United reaucracies of defense and diplomacy use old language and fail to think States. The American news media stands, I clearly. If the President of the United believe, guilty all too often of failing States cannot discipline himself to use to learn the lessons of 40 years of com- the correct language, he can hardly petition between freedom and the expect those who unde::stand less than

Poland, when clearly Jaruzelski is the dictalor imposed by the Soviet army, which ignores if possible the 35,000 pounds of Communist documents captured in Grenada when we liberated that island, and which ignores when it can the real nature of Ortega's CommunisI dicbatorship. All ioo often the news rnedia itselJ is gro'uesquely uncritical and grotesquely wiUine to use Soviet lancuage to ex-

March 21, 1986 CONG RESSIONAL RECORD-HOUSE word stolen by the Comrnunists in major Soviet advantage? Where are all Nicaragua to deliberately mlslead na- the kinds of high-tech equipment tionalists, it is virtually impossible to which could be there if we had taken get thaL word out of the current gov- seriously in 1980 the job of inventing ernmenl language. So last Sunday the computerlzed, light, high technolnighl, Ronald R.eagan, who under- ogy, the inexpensive user-friendly sysstands better than anyone bhat he is tems that would have driven the
ship, used the word "Sandinista"
times.

dealing with a Communist dictator- Soviet Army out of Afghanistan or 15 made its stay there a thousand times world training academy to take young Afghan leaders and train them in light infantry tacbics and train them in the
Army?

more expensive? Where is the free

Pakistan, we have irregulars, we have advisers; but the simple fact is that our response, just as in the Spanish

habits and doctrine of the Soviet Oh, we have people in camps in

In

he does lo rinderstand what is at stake. Yet Sandino was a nationalist. He

it is impos-

elfectiveness of the West.

make them successful.

5889 CONG RESSIONAL RECORD_trIOUSE March 91, 1986 lan- my point. With a long-term well- petilion occurs at four levels, and they When we look at our strong guage about Afghanistan and our io- thought-out, strategy, this administra- are a hierarchy; that the top level is tally ineffeci,ive response, can we be tion woi.rld have had 30 to 50 people vision, the second level is strategy, the surprised that there is no public un- outside the administration writinc third ievel i:s operations or projects, that ariicle. There would have been and the bottom level !s tastics. And derstanding? When we look at how litUe film people across America writing ^r,hat ar- they are a hierarchy in the sense that comes out of Communist tyrannies, ticle. lt would not have been tactical vision dominates everything else. can we be surprised? Every night on work to be done by the Director of Strategy, how you are going to impleAmerican television, every night on Communications. Because there is no strategy for the European television, every night on there grassroots, there can be no effective should be footage of the barbarism of strategy for the Congress. Congresses bhe Soviet empire, and we should pay should follow the will of the people. If higher prices to those courageous the administration carrnot educate the enough to go into the Soviet empire to Nation into understanding why it get that footage, and it should become needs over time to develop a transnacommonplace to develop documenta- tional strategy for freedom to counter ries and films about just how horrible the transnational strategy for tyranny of the Soviet empire and its Commuihe Soviet empire is. Yet, American television does not do nist Cuban colonial forces, it should it. American commerical television hardly expect the Congress month in does not do it. The U-S. Infoqnation and monlh out to be able to do that.

Latin American television

ment your vision, dominates the other two, operations or projects. \ilhat are the definable tasks you can assign wiU dominate tactics, and tactics is at the
base.

carxe in this country we think almosb

This is particularly important

be-

always at the tactical level. We ask

empire; we ask about General Lopez only in Nicara8ua, not about General Lopez in Syria fighting the fsraelis, in the Soviet Union being trained, or in Angola dominating the freedom fighters fo form another Soviet colony. Let me give you an example of what

about Nica,iaiBua, not the

Soviet

wonder why our allies and ourselves shouid be cowardly or that Congress are so ignorant of the truth about the should have no role. ft is simply to say I mean by hierarchy and use a Soviet empire and the Cuban Commu- flatly that if the Central Intelligence common, everyday nonmilitary examAgency will not declassify documents, nist colonial forces. you have the vision that you Finally, only within the framework if the State Department will not use ple. If are going to cook Thanksgiving oI right language, right policies, right the right language, if the Defense De- dinner, you have aavery differen! institutions and strategies, right public partment will not develop the right vision than if you have a vision that understanding, can we exPect to get docirines, if the White lfouse will no0 you picnic are going right legislation. develop the right legislative strategies, That vision to fix a what in July. changes kind of For 6 long years now, the Reagan it can hardly then turn in a crunch in terms e1 administration, day in and day out, and complain because Fiepresentatives strategy you will have,grocery you store, has followed a fundamentally flawed and Senators cannot quite figure out what long will buy at the it, how it will take to fix whether strategy of dealing with the Congxess, how to do all tha0 which the executive or not you rreed to use the stove, how largely because the senior leadership branch has failed to do. of the R,eagan administration remerrrAs I said, I want tc :rt these orders many people you are going to invite bered the Rayburn yeers. It has dealt outline three propositions. First, the over, a whole range of issues, even kind tactically behind closed doors with realiby of the Soviet empire, the whalyou of si-lverware you may use. If think you are going to fix a people who either cannot deliver votes Cuban col.onial Communist army and or will not deliver votes. the t,ransnal,ional strateglr of tyranny. Thanksgiving dinner but in fact you adopt the strategy of a picnic lunch, so The fact is that the U.S. Congress is n 1250 you buy watermelon, you buy sliced shifting from a Rayburn model, closed Secono, the need ior a free world ham, you buy lots of potato chips, you door, handful of leaders model to a your friends who erassroots Congress led by the Nation stralegy cf a transnational campaign may confuse all of at large; whereas in Rayburn's daY, a for freedom to mafch and then defeat show up for what they thought was a dozen nren meeting in what theY the transnational campaign for tyran- Thanksgiving dinner. you think that On the other hand, if called the board of education, could ny. And, third, the specific steps neces- you are going to go out on a picnic or make major decisions. Today it is milliorrs of Americans across this country sary for the Reagan administration to your strategy is to set the table with writing, telephoning, wiring, and visit- communicate the firsb and implemertt the family's best China and best silver, you. may confuse those who show up ing their Congxessman to help make the second. To undelstand the intellectual prin- in their shorts and their bathing suits decisions. This is a much healthier body now that it has television, now ciples of sl;rategic thinking and why prepared to go to the locai park. that it is open, now that the citEens we lrave been losing the struggle with Therefore, the strategy, operations, can participate by mail, by iet air- the Soviet empire, the Communist end tactics have to fit the vision. This plane, by telephone and bY town hall Cuban coionial army and their trans- is particularly important, because hisnational slrategy of tyranny, it is nec- torically we need to study the vlsion, meetings. Yet there has been no adequate essary to focus for a moment on the the strategy, operations and tactical Reagan administration vision in strat- basic system of thinking of our con- framework of evcnts to unr-lerstand whaf is happening. egy to develop the gtassroots Con- flict. For example, the German WehrI would sugges0 that the first place gress. fn the long rlul, we have to have long throughout, deliberate strategies we los-re is intellectually in the issue of macht, the German Army in World War II, was brilliant at operatioru and in operation, foctrsinB on educating thinking about the ari of survival. Sun T'zu, in "The Art of War," writ- tactics, probably the best aimy in the country at large, rather than fojust'ihis Congress. ten 500 years before Christ, said, World War II. But at the visron and cusing on Thts morning at a press conference, "Know the enemy and you have won strategy level, Germany lost the war. we had an iliustration of the gap be- half the battle; know yourself and the And because vision and strategy dominate operations and tactics, in the end tween what I am describing and what battle is yours." He said that the process of survival the German Army was defeated even this city is used to. One reporter asked "How could you want a more aEi- is vital to the state and should be the though. it was a better operational me, gressive administration than Pat Bu- first duty of study of every statesman. army than any of its compeLitors. The British Army in the American The key to survival and thinking chanan's article in the Post the other week?" Yet, her question was exactly about survival is recognizing that com- Flevolution was clearly the superior

Service does

not do it. And :;hen

we

This is not to say that

Congress

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strategy. Contained at the top by nuclear vreapons, contained in Europe by the North Atlantic Tleaty Organlzation, the Soviet empire begirn to hunt lor new battlefields, for a new way of dealing at the vision-and-strategy level Begirurins with what l{hrushchev

nature of spying, the threat to surviv- eguipment to spy on the United States than anywhere else outside of the al. fn the end, it created an answer Soviei Union. The Soviet colonial ocwhich lasted I believe for about 20 cupation of Cuba gives them 11 airyears. fields, a set of aircraft carriers that In the mid-1960's, the Soviet empire are permanent and stationed in Cuba began to develop a new transnational itself. The Soviet use of Cuba as a

cause it makes Casiro a greab puppet send our warships on the high seas? Harry Truman, figurehead presumably independent of Do we not have the right to use or George Marshall, Arthur Vandenberg, the Soviets, while his very survival de- would you oppose our using troops? and others invented the contaiilnent pends every day on the Soviet empire's Mercenary troops? Mr. GINGRICII. I am glad you strategy to contain Joseph Stalin and money, the Soviet empire's secret the Soviet empire. It was for its time a police, the Soviet empire's permission; raised that; f was going to comment on brilliant vision-and-strategy response. yet Castro can posLure as though he that a ]ittle bit later. But I am glad you raised that issue, and I am only It required tremendous arguments in were independent. The Soviet transnational system in going to yield briefly because f want to America, impassioned pleas by Flepublicans and Democrats alike, fierce Cuba gives them their largesL spy base finish this, then I wiil yield longer if I fiehts over the future of this country, outside the Soviet empire. At Lourdes have time. the definiCion of conununism, the in Cuba they have more electronic I had a gentleman the other day, engaged in.

you would oppose our own Governegy levels that tbe Soviet empire enormous power. Remember, Cuba is ment doing the same thing. I mean, do today is superior to the free world in dangerous for many reasons. Cuba is we not have the right to put bases in our concept of the competition we are dangerous as a Communlsl colony be- Turkey? Do we not have the riglrt to

succeed. Indeed, in flarry Sumners' brilliant study of the Vietnam war, he begins his book with a person- phistication. We have no defensive al story as an Army colonel of having measures to protect us from $300,000 a gone to llanoi at the end of the war, year WashinBton law firms who take and he said to a North Vietnamese of- Communist money to repeat Commuficer, "You never defeated us on the nist lies to help Communisi foreign battiefield." And the Norbh Vietnam- policy. We have no techniques to explain ese officer said to him, "That is irrelevant." And in that one quote, I a.nd deal with domestic front groups the central guided by Communist fot'eien governthought Sumners caught lesson of vision, strategy, operations, menfs. We are faced with a disinformation campaign of enormous sophisand taetics. If you have the most brilliant tactic tication, of g:'eat power, which the your opponent can Grenada documents indicate clearly in the world but defeat you operationally, you will lose. ha-s impact on the U.S. Congress, on If you have the greatest operational our own sbaffs, on the national news and tactical skills Lr the world but media and on our intellectua,I corrrmuyour opponent beats you at the vision nity. It is the Soviets who have created a and strategy level, you will lose. It is precisely at the vision and strat- Comrnunist Cuban colonial army of

not

American Revolutionary A:'my was superior to the British Army. Similarly, the table was turned on us in Vietnam, While the American Army irr Vietnam was clearly operationally and tacticaUy.superior to tire Commun-ist ltlorth Vietnamese Army, we never h,ad a vision or strategy of that war which would have enabled us to win it; so although we defeated the North Vietnamese Army every single time we met them in battle, in the end we did

American Revolutionary Arny capable of defeating the British Army. In fact, it is the arrival of French reeulars that made it possible, finally, for the British to be trapped at Yorktown. The British lost one arrny at Saratoga because of a massive strategical mistake, not because on airy single daY the Americans could tactically defeat General Burgoyne at Saratoga but because strategically the British Al.my at Sit'atoga had gotten tcc far out of touch with the rest of the army and, therefore, was defeated by the strate. gic mistakes, not by its operational or tactieal skills. Yet clearly the British lost the war, they lost the tvar because at the vision-and-strategy level, the

Itr/ashineton could never have built an

operational and tactical army. George

with Western freedom.

March 21, 1986 colony gives them additional trainers in the Cuban Communisb secret police who work closely, as Claire Sterling and ottrers have proven, with the terrorist networks of the Paiestine Liberation Organization and with Qadhafi in Libya.

lyze what was happening, and a new, Castro, most of whom who had worked powerful Soviet trarsnational strategy emerged. ft is the Soviets who have in- with the Libyan terrorists, and most of vented this transnational strategy whom wtro have a direct relationship while we cling to the l9th-century Eu- in our allies to the Soviei empire's ropean models of sovereicrrty, clear- most anti-Israeli and anti-American cut choices of war and peace, recogni- activities. Finally, it is the Soviet transnational tion or nonrecognition. It is the Soviets who have studied our system. They system creating a Communist Cuban colonial army which has given them have invented disinformation systems of massive scale and remarkable so- remarkable a^ssets. Thirty-five thousand Cuban soliders occupying Angola in what is now a Cuban Communist, Soviet Communist imperial colony replacine the Portuguese colony. Thou-

ets have established in their transnaarticulator of the threat ol commu- bional method gives them a great training ground, for example, for the Nicaraguan Comrnunists, most of whose its way, the free world failed to zna- Ifavana,leaders were training in most of whom met with nism. Throughout the 1960's and early 1970's, compounded by the chaos of Watergate, the American Nation lost

called wars of national libeiation; that is, deliberately establish Communist efforts to tmin guerrillas, magnified in the 19?0's by a deliberate networking of terrorisb Eiroups, many of them trained and supplied by the Soviet empire, the Soviets developed a new approach, a new threai. With the death of John F. KennedY, the Demoeratic Party lost its greatest

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degree to which the Grenadian Communists and the Cuban Communists were intimately tied to terrorists in Libya and elsewhere. The Cuban colonial system the Sovi-

clearly and systemrnatically for anyone willing to read them the

The Grenada documents docurrent

Communist Cuban colony. Again and again, the Soviets have developed a pretty inexpensive investment in a them immensely. Mr. WEAVER. Mr. Speaker, will the gentleman yield? Mr. GINGRICH. I wiil yield just for
a rnoment.

sands of Cuban soldiers occupying Ethiopia in what is now in effect a Soviet colony. Thousands of Cuban soldiers now in Nicaragua in what is a

Cuban colonial army which helps

if

Mr. WEAVER.

was

just wondering

In the l:r.te

1940's

when I was talking about Gen. Nestor Lopez who the Cubans have now sent to NicaraEnra. General Lopez was sent to Syria to fight on the side of the Syrians against fsrael in charge of a Cuban tank regiment. He was sent to Angola in charge of a division to

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CONGRESSIONAL RECORD_FIOUSE
body

5891

impose communism in Angola, and a mine the West, and threaten our secucolleague of mine on the left said to rity as individuals and our very srrrvivme, "But isn't that exactly like our al as a civilization. Yet we do noL even to this day have an adequaie doclrilal generals?" My answer wa.s simPle: If You do not strategy for transnational lerrorism believe there is slavery and freedom, developed by states. Otherwise, how there is no functional difference be- could Qadhafi recently have threattween those who uss guns to impose ened us when he has a binY dictatorslavery and those who txe grrns to pro- ship and we are lhe most Powerful tect freedom. Just as there is no differ- free country in the world. It is the Soviets who have developed ence between the criminal who uses a grrn to rob a store and the policeman negotiations as a screen behind which to consolidate dictatorship, train the who uses a gun to Protect a stcre. guerrillas and terrorists, If you are witling to saY tbat a next itcycle of Soviets who have develis the Cuban colonial arrny imposinc a and gradualism as a siralegy. First, mor- oped Soviet dictatorship on Angola is ally acceptable, then there is no differ- Castro took power in Cuba. Then he ence. But in fact my dad was stationed imposed a CommunisL dictatorship. in Ftance and we moved out of FYance Then he developed Communist secret in 1959, and when Charles de Gaulle police. Tlten he accep'ued a few Soviet and the Ftench said to us, "Take all of trainers. Then a few helicopters. Then a few Mig fighters. Then a couPle of your troops and leave," we ieft' When, on the other hand, the Polish submarines. Now he has an army in people said in 1956-57, "Russians four different countries occupying ieave," the Russian ArmY came in colonies for the Soviet Empire' Inch-by-inch, step-by-step we were harder. When the Hungarians rose in rebellion, the Russian tanlrs crushed told let us negotiate. What happened? The Comrnunisk grew stronger in ghters. Hungarian freedom f i

jority

will believe that we are the

arrd they are the

tna-

So they were Bolsheviks ever since. is Lenin who called the Sovlef newspaper Pravda, which mearls trutit. Because he said, "I will own truth." He meant by that not merely a pun, but

minority.

It

the literal ability of a totalilarian state, as George Orwell told us in "1984," to redefine reality over and

The Soviets believe very deeply in a war of words and in the power of language to shape reality. Thev understand George Orwell's essay on politics and the Engtish language. They systemmatically use words which is why
and thugs and terrorists. Which i,s why they told their Communists in Nicaragua to use "Sandinista" because they knew that if they were called Communists we would have undersiood it,. Yet, we do not even realize that Leninism as a doctrine for the use of language exisk. All too ofien we use their words. Our Government uses their words. We sent, for example, last year congtatulations on the coup de etat on the anniversary of the Soviet takeover of power illegally in the Soviet Union, A nonseruical concept intellec[ually if

over again,

they call their armies "peoples' armies" even if they are dictatorships

R,ussian tanks crushed vakians.

in rebellion, Flussian tanks crushed the line, and what happened? A Year East Germans. When the Czechoslova' la,ter, 2 years later when we were not kians tried to become free in 1968' paying attention, the Communists are we seeing in
the Czechoslocrossed the line. What Nicaragua today? It is Cuba all over-

When the East Germans in 1953 rose

Cuba, Thetl we were told

let us draw

I think that mY good friend from First comes ihe dictatorship, but lei Oregon raised exacUy the difference us negotiate. Then come the secret between those of us who think there is police, but let us negotiate. Then a transnational strategy for tyranny comes training guerrillas, but iet us on the part of the Soviet empire and negotiate. Then come the Cuban adwho see the Cuban colonial arrny as a visers, but let us negotiate' T}-en come colonial army, and ttr.ose on the left the Soviet advisers, but let us negotiThen come the Hind helicopbers, but and do not seem to understand the dif- let us negotiate. Then eome the ference, the fundamental difference Czechoslovakian light fighter-bombers, but let us negotiate. Finally come between tyranny and freedom. Remember, recently when we talked the Mig-23's, but let us negotiate. about our bases in the Philippines, no Then comes the training brigade of one suggested, "Let rl's send an Ameri- Soviet troops, the heavY tanks, [hen can army of occupation to ki]l Filipi- come the missiles. Not a single thing I have just denos so we can keeP Clark Field and we can keep Subic BaY." What we said scribed failed to happen in Cuba and was, "It a Philippine Government two-thirds of it has happened in Nicacomes into power and asks us to leave, ragua. What is the answer of our we will leave." Because, after all' we friends on the left? It is to not notice believe in freedom and in a free people it, to explain it away; but frankly what is the elfect of our executive branch? being our allies, not our PuPPets. Let the people of Poland tomorrow It is f,o fail to develop a diplomatic remorning ask the Russians to leave' sponse, a political response or a mili' and the-v will be met by machineeuns. tary response tbaL is effective. Finally, it is the Soviets who have I,et the Cuban people tonight ask the R'Bsians to leave, and they will be met developed language into a war of by tlind helicopters with gacling guns. vrords of great power. Lenin probably My good friend from Oregon ex' most brilIiantly personified this when plained precisely the difference be- he and his faction los| a fight for contween those of us who fear tyranny trol of the International arounci 1903, and those of our friends on the left and immediately adopted the Russian vrho do not seem to be able to under- word "Bolshevik" which means majorstand the difference between John ity. As Lenin said, "If we who are the mi' Brown who was trYinB to free the slaves and those who used rifles to nority, they had lost the vote, but they said if we call ourselves "Boishekeep the slaves in slaverY. our F urthermore, it is the Soviets who vik" meaning majority, and we call have eneouraged a worldwide network opponents "Menshevik" meaning miof terrorists who attack Israel, under' nority, then after a year or two, every-

Again and again we forgei that words in the long run define reality and that if you carur!,i. think it, you cannot say it; and if you cannot say it, conversely you cannot think it. If we
think of the Soviets as "Gorbachov is basically a nice guy," and I can find

there is

a Soviet

Empire.

who in fact do not think it is an empire, do not see it as colonialism,

ate.

you quotes, the best of them

reasonable man.

George McGovern, on AndroPov as

bY a

Because we lack the words, we all too often deceive ourselves. We are a little bit like the story of the "Three LitLle Pigs" in which, if the Little Pigs had said, "Oh, that is not a wolf, that is essentially a well-meaning mammal with a strange appetite for protein," they would, over a time, have decided that we would have, if the wolf had described lrirnself in Leninist ter-ms as a "hairy pig," and said, "Yes, I have nutrition problenx, but do not think of me a wol-f, wolves are those people over there. I am essentially a hairy pig, and yes, I eat protein, but I wiil

pretended to be nice personally.

using mcntal hospitals as a torture ground for people who dissented. He helped develop the Gulag ArchepeIago. I{e was the Ambassador who brought in Soviet tanks to crush the Hungarians. There are no adequate words in the West to describe what the horrible thug Andropov was functionally even if he drank scotch and

Now, Andropov was the head of the Soviet Secret Police. He helped invent

stand then far better the nature of

not eat you today." You would under-

March 21. 1986 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD-HOUSE The fact is that there ls a Soviet They refuse to study 40 years Gorbachov, AndroPov, Chernenko, Lenin. experience of Soviet colonialism in empire of tyran"ny and there is a raand the Soviet Empire. Vision must lead to words' Our Eastern Europe. They refuse to study tional historica.l basis for its existence. The key to understanding the Soviet vision cannot exist if we ca.nnot say it. 26 years of Castro's communism in Strategy must lead to policies, to strat' Cuba. They refuse to examine the empire is to recogf,rize how djJferent egies, and they must lead to structures emerging new historiography about from us it is. lor implementation. Operations must the Vietnam war arrd the success of a The key lesson of Charles Itrautbe definable tasks for which we can Vietnamese colonial imperialism allied hamrner's essay on "Mirror Images" in
5892
holci people accountable.

a
egy.

1315

The tacties on a daily basis must be a doctrine that fik our vision of stratto impose human rights limitations on the Government of Ei Sal'
Congxess

It was totally appropriate for this if

we were going to support

my judgment, it is totally appropriate for us to impose human rights limitatiorx on the freedom fighters in Nicaragua if we are going to support them. That is making a doctrine of freedom fit at a taetical level our vision of freedom, but I think you then have to be able to supply the trainers to make sure they are well trained. Yori must be willing to supply the kind of de-

vador

it. In

tailed help that is necessary if the

forces of freedom are going to win.

should declassify a lot more. If we in faet have, as the Central Intelligence Agency keeps claiming and the Wirite House keeps claiming, if we have massive documentary proof of the existshould reguire our Gove.:nmenb to declassify those argn-rmenk and let us

That is why, frankly, I think

we

work, then our vision of

ence

of the So'viet disinformation netfreedom

talk it out here in public and let us look at them and let us learn which
ones are important and which ones relevant.

should worry us and which ones are

vision, strategy operations and tactics, go back to the first proposition. Is ernors must forever arm themselves with there a Soviet empire? Does it use a the power which only knowledge can give. But this first wealrness of iatellectuCommunist Cuban army to extend its power, and has it developed a transna- al weakness is compounded by a second weakness, the psychological tional strategy for imposing tyranny block on learning, which psychologisLs on people? I think it is clear, the Soviet empire call cognitive dissonance, which is is real. It has developed a transna- driven by an isolationism and a pacitional strategy for tyranny. It does use fism, the will to avoid knowledge the Communist Cuban colonial army which mieht be frightening. Starting with the horrors of World as a colonial arrny around the world and it is helping terrorisk so that they War f, there has been a erowing western world tendency toward pacifism will undermine the free world. Why if those are true, and I thinl< it and isolationism. Henry Wallace in is almost irnpossible for a reasonable America in World War II, Gec,rge person to deny that at least at a fun- McGovern who campaigned for Henry damental level they are true, why Wallace, Jimmy Carter who in many then do so many people reiect this re- ways accepted McGovernism, Walter Mondale who defended McGovernism: ality so totally? I would suggest that to an American today there is a generation of politiin the late 20th century the central cians, intellectuals, and religious leadchallenge of the reality of the Sovj.et ers on the left who I think in many empire is inteUectual and psychologi- ways find it very, very difficult to deal cal. Irrtellectually, many Americans with the weird frightening reality of simply do not want to believe in the the Soviet Union and find iC easier to weird and frightening reality of the be reassured by a fantasy that is pleasSoviet empire. They refuse tc read ant, but simply does not conform to Russian ldstory. They refuse to study the real world.

Let me within this framework of

with the Soviet empire. They refuse to his new book "Cutting Edges" is that and manv of us on the left simply refuse to their clear lessons about the nature of accept that Khomeini is different the Soviet empire. They refuse to from us, Gorbachev ir; different irom study the true meaning of Marxism- us, the l(rerr-lin is different from us, Ireninism as an instrument of tyranny the Soviet tyranny is different from and the deliberate ways in which the lls. The key lesson of Theodore White's Grenadian Communisbs with Cubaa and Soviet training and guidance were book "America in Search of Itself" in lying to the American Gcvernment which he talks about how hard it was and the A:nerican people and were mil- for the Carter adrniuistration to recognipulating our sincerity to mask their nize that Khomeini was by Western tyranny. standards a barbarian, that is, a man These Americans who intellectually outside our culture, which is what the hide from reaiity deny the over 16- word means, is equally difficult for the year pattern of Nicaraguan Commu- rest of us in dealinet with the Soviet nist ties to Cuba and to Middle East- Union. ern terrorism. Western civilization is a set of They also reject the clearly colonial values, the importance of the individnature of the Cuban occupation of ual, that no one is above the law, the Angola. They ignore or refuse to con- right to private properly, the right to front the grue-(ome terrible daily reali- a free press, the right to free elections, ty of a thousar:d people a day dying in to give pos/er to those in government Communist Ethiopia from deliberate and to take back that power, the righb actions by the Communist dictatorship to freedom of religion and freedom of designed to strengthen its g,rip on 0he speech. country. They iemore or refuse to Note that in Western civilization study the realities of military power fhese are rishts and they limit and and so they never read "Sun T'zu, the control the power of government over Art of War," Clauswitz on war, Mao the individual citizen, as even Richard Tse Tung on "Guerrilla Warfare," or Nixon found when we proved once Lenin on "Totalitarian Powet." again that no one person is above the This first weakness is the intellectu- law. A student at the Universit.y of ViraI weakness of i$rorance, a weakness which was described by James Madi- ginia Law School the other night asked me, "Aren't we and the Russians son, who said: Knowledge shall forever govern igrorance really sharing Lhe same civjlizaiion? people who mean to be their own gov- Don't \te and the Russians really have and a

study the Grenada documents

Buddhist Indians, we share with the people of India a deep reverence for the law, for the rights of the individual, for a free press, for elections. The fact is that while we have deep diffslsngss in culture, history and ge-

The fact is that in political values and government systems, India and Japan are more western than the Soviet Union. The fact is that while we have a deep cultural and societal difference with Hindu-Muslim and

Americans are white, that we rnusl be more like the Russians; yet the fact is that Oriental Japanese, Asiatie Indians, Caucasians who happen to be Americans, have far more in corrrmon in political and legal values than any of us have with Caucasian Russians.

white and we are white and

suggests

In fact, there is a form of shallow history and a kind of racism which that
because Russians are
most

isn't Russia more like us than Japan?" lvly answer in a word is "No."

The questlon was based on my discussion of Japan, and he said, "But

Che

same heritage?"

March 21. 1986

society.

will crush it." trying to understand the U.S, GovernNote lhe American confusion in the ment with no knowledge of the Ameristrange and barbaric country, a throw- Gerald Ford-Jimmy Car[er debate in can Constitution or American political back to the Middle East, a medieval 1976, because it illustrates the failure parties; yet Lenin's writings are so szardom with a computerized modern of vision and strategy in America. ruthless, so savage, so antihuman, so Technically, under the old rules of alien to Wesbern values, that most secret police.

CONGRESSIONAL RECORD-HOUSE 5893 To try to undersband the Soviet osraphy with Japan, we share a simi- to Jaruzelski, "Either you crush the lar process of lavr and govemment and effort for freedom or Soviet troops ernpire withouL studying Lenin is like It is the Soviet Union which is
a

sovereignty, Poland is sovereign and Gerald Ford tried to say that, but he lost ground politically because Americaru understood that it is dumb to think of Poland as a free country. While Poland may be technically sovereign by the mosi gruesome rules of law, ib is clearly a colony of the transnational Soviet empire. So Jimmy Carter, who in fact favored George McGovern's policy, sounded tougher than Gerald Ford because the State of Muscovy, into a 20th-century empire, shaped by Leninism and held Deparf,ment had coached Ford to say totJether by terror, is something we that which was technically correct at a technical level, but ab the vision level have to conJront directly, The weird frightening uniqueness of the Soviet empire in the late 20th century is captured brilliantly in Paul Johnson's "Modern Times, a History of the 20th Century." The tragedy of the Russian people and the even gxeater tragedy of the dozens of other nationalist national! ties, oppressed, colonized and exploited by this weird mutation of a greal Russian medieval empire, the Duchy

Iy in fiction and nonJiction the grim ruthless savage reality of the Soviet empire. ft is there in his books for ail
wiro will simply look: "One DaY in the

Solzhenitsyn has explained brilliant-

if you simply ask straightforward

East Germany, Hungary, Czechoslova-

called the Soviet Union an evil empire. The Soviet Union is not only terrible for human freedom and human decency, it is the last ereat colonial empire. Eid Luttvak's book, "The Grand Strategy of the Soviet Union," makes clear how obvous the Soviet empire is

Life of fvan Denisovich," the "Gulag talk has a vote in the United Nations Archipeligo," the "Cancer Ward," and because it is theoretically free. There his brilliant New York Times article, is a simple test. The United States, the others. "The New Vietnam Historiography," Can anyone read them without Reagan administration, should ask the the thousands of pages of documents tears. think of them rvithout deep sad- Soviet Union to allow us to open an ness, ponder the nature of that evil embassy in lfiev, recognizing the from Grenada. Given the consistent straightforward empire without fear for freedom and Ukreinians. We should recognize the Ukraine as a separate country, or we pattern of Soviet imperialism and its humanity? An American writer, Harrison Salis- should irrsist that the Soviet Union open published record of telling us bury, caught the essence of Soviet tyr- withdraw its phony puppeC colony what it will do, doing it, and then telling us it has done it, why is it so hard anny, the savagery of the police state, vote from bhe United Nations. But note today how the Soviet for the Ieftwing of American life to the brutality of bhe system that, Gorbachev heads in his novel "The Gates empire wins both ways. ft uses a tran- learn? Eric l{ofer's "The Tlue Beiiever," of He]l." It is a novel about two char- scendental strategy of lies and Westacters who resemble Solzhenitsyn and ern gullibility to get both. They set John Francois Revel's, "How Democwho reads it will the vote in the United Nations for racies Perish," and Walter LeQuer's Andropov. Anyone understand why President Reagan their colony and they get to keep the "The Terrible Secret" give us some of
colony. The weird frightening reality of the Soviet empire and the degree to which it is very different from Western values, the rule of law, ftee elections, freedom of religion and free press, can best be seen in the context of Russian

was clearly dumb and wrong. Poland is not sovereign in any sense except in the most grotesque. Poland is a colony of the Soviet empire, Similarly, the Ukraine today as we

speeches, the "Sevenby-lwo Hour Document of the Nicaraguan Communist Dictatorship," and thet public statemenk, the published writings of the Vietnamese Communists since their victory, as cited by Fox Butterfield in

writings, the speeches of Brezhnev, Andropov, and Gorbachev, Castro's

Americans shrug them off and refwe to take them seriously. There is a real parallel betvleen the psychological will to av.rld reality and hide in the fantasy of pacifism and isolationism in the 1930's and the same determined psychological avoidance of reality on the religious left, the academic left, and the political left over the last 50 years. No reasonable person can read the published open docurnents, Lenin's

questions. What is the Soviet domination of Poland but an empire? What is the Soviet domination of

When the East Germans rose in sively that modern Leninist governmenLs are systematictlly trained in When the Ilungarians rose in 1956, Lenin's methods. Since Gorbachev's wife is a professor they were crushed. And 'When the Czechs moved towa.rd of Marxism-Leninism, it should be ob- through yet as our troops walked those concentration camps, it vious just how central Lenin's was clear the world was that evil. freedom in 1968, the:r were crushed.
1953, they were crushed, 1980,

The Grenada papers, the 35,000 tween NATO and the Soviet empire in Eastern Europe? The difference is ex- pounds of documents captured from actly the difference between slavery the Communist dictatorship when Americans liberated Grenada and the and freedom. When De Gaulle left us to leave 800 pages ol documents published by the State Department proved concluFbance, we pulled out.

an empire? Our less sophisticated friends on the left will say, what is t'he difference be-

kia, Romania, Bulgaria, if not

people ar AuschwiLz, at L}:.e terrible holocausb of Nazi history, LenirdsL ideology and the asked in his book, Germany, and he "How could recent acbivities of the Soviet police erners fail to have believed? westHow state and the Soviet imperial effort could they fail to have learned? How through its Cuban colonial army. fail to Paul Johnson's brief description of could they perhapshave noticed?" most tellingly FeJix He cites czarist Russia and Lenin's adaptations
police into a 2Oth-century totalitarian system is brief, concise and conclusive.

at the annihilation of the

that understanding and perhaps of the three of them, I{/alter LeQuer's is the mosi powerful and the rnost frightening for LeQuer went back and looked
Jewish

of the 19th-century czarist

secret

Supreme Court, who when briefed by a European Jew on what was happening, said to the young man, "I cannot believe you." And the young rnan started to object and he said, "Please, understand me. I believe tbe facts you say are true. It is simply impossible for me to beiieve ib is possible for the world to be so horrible. I cannot in my soul, in my heart, believe the world could be so evil."

Frankfurter, the great Justice of the

When the Poles rose in Solidarity in the Soviet sent a simple message

thoughts on power and tyranny are to the operations of the Soviet empire.