The Guardian of Liberty - Nemzetőr, 1980 (3. évfolyam, 1-4. szám)

1980-05-01 / 3. szám

BI-MONTHLY B 20435 F THE GUARDIAN OF LIBERTY (NEMZETŐR) Vol. 2 K*17 MAY-JUNE, 1980 "Everyone has the right to freedom of thought, conscience and religion" Article 18 Universal Declaration of Human Rights The 21st-Century Imperialism? i ^ ingapore's Foreign Minister, Mr. S. Ra­­k jaratnam, believes that Soviet impe­rialism will be the dominant factor in the world in the 21st century — only 20 years away — if the non-communist countries and China fail to take effective counter-measures in the meantime. His views on the long-term threat posed by the USSR were expressed in a luncheon speech in Tokyo, quoted in a recent issue of Perjuangan, journal of the Singapore National Trades Union Congress. Mr. Rajaratnam said: „. . . The question is this: Will the 21st century see the end of the non-communist, largely capi­talist, world order and its superession by a new communist world order. In the non-communist world a question such as this has for long been considered both unfashionable and reactionary. It is the language of antiquated Cold War mischief­­makers. „The ,progressive‘ view, authored largely by the Soviets, was implicit faith in détente and peaceful co-existence between different social systems on the basis of mutual respect and non-interference in one another’s internal affairs. I believe 1 have get the catechism right — more or less. „This is the catechism but the reality is something else altogether. Let us consider what détente end peaceful co-exisxence has achieved for the com­munist world under Soviet leadership and for the non-communist world under the leadership of nobody in particular. „First, the Soviet balance sheet. Pefore World War II there was only one. somewhat precarious communist State in the woUd — the Sov;et Union. It was not even a power, let alone a suOer-power . . . „Today, some 60 years later, we laugh less about Russian capacity to establish a working re]ation­­ship with complex and intricate machinery — especially the machinery of war ... It is possible that the Soviets have lost out on plumbing and watches, but they have been steadily winning a more important war through skilful use of détente and peaceful co-existence. „Please go back to your atlas and contemplate it. Here it is the Russians who have every reason for hilarity. It more than compensates for having lost out on plumbing and watches . . . „Today the communist world stretches frsm the Berlin Wall, across Soviet Asia, down East Asia and the South East to terminate, for the time being, along Thailand’s borders. Except for China and North Korea, all the other States acknowledge the undisputed and indisputable leadership of the ex­panding communist world the Soviet Union is erecting over our heads. „Add to this massive communist Euro-Asian bloc Soviet outposts in Nicaragua, Cuba, Angola, Mo­zambique, Grenada, Ethiopia, South Yemen and even a few islands north of Japan. „And how has the non-communist world fared under détente and peaceful co-existence? As the Soviet power and influence has grown, so has that of the non-communist powers ceaselessly shrunk. Not only have the vast Western empires disap­peared but a number of their former dependencies have entered or are seriously considering entering the emerging Soviet world order. „Under the euphoria of détente and peaceful co-existence, the non-communist powers have of their own volition clipped their claws and extiacted their molars to convince the appreciative Soviets that they are peace-loving lions. „The consequence is that the military and strategic superiority that the non-communist powers had even as late as 1965 has now been largely lost to the Soviets. Today the Soviets have established conventional military superiority in Europe and global strategic parity with the Unhed States... „Most of the 21 countries currently within the Soviet orbit are not areas of peaceful socialist con­struction but of intensive militarisation. The moment a country becomes a Soviet ally, forging of ploughshares into swords is the major preoccupa­tion. (Continued on page 2) Soviet troops encircling a capital town in the environment of Kabul, in Afghanistan — stretching out its rule to Third World’s Islamic nations CONTENTS* KGB Headaches in 1981 2 Ricialism Motivates Mob Violance 3 Muslims Warned about "Infertile Crescent" 4 Afghans Appeal to World’s Athletes 5 Olympic Message from Con. Camp 6 Successes Achieved in Pope’s Mission 7 New Testaments Printed Secretly... 8 "One in Ten Sent to Psyehoprisons" 9 Amnesty Inlernational on Censorship... 10 Big "Love the Army" Campaign 11 IOC Powerless to Ban Drug-Takers 12

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