Re: Soviet balance sheet

[boddhisatva <kbevans@xxxxxxxxx>]

		C. Devine,



	The problem is that you can't take Russia out of the post-WW2
picture as a major power.  Otherwise Germany wins or the war ends with
nuclear attacks on Berlin or something.


	The trick is to determine whether, for example , the third world
was open to the Soviet Union as an alternative colonial state (the best
among bad choices), to the Soviet Union as a new social order, or to
socialism, but not necessarily Soviet socialism.  In any of these cases,
it stimulates the U.S. to polish itself up, but in two of three it is no
particular credit to the Soviet Union as such.




	peace