NODE 0c4da8e9Re: Fighting the cybercensor
"Dr.Dimitri Vulis KOTM" <dlv@bwalk.dm.com>Wed, 29 Jan 1997 20:41:09 -0800 (PST)
"Phillip M. Hallam-Baker" <hallam@ai.mit.edu> writes:
> The Cold War was not won by the arms race, it was won in
> Eastern Europe which was never a major participant. The main
> instrument that won it was West German TV which broadcast
> pictures of supermarkets with full shelves into the homes
> of East Germans every night. The viewers could see that it
> was not mere propaganda and their relatives confirmed the
> fact. As a result the East German guards on the Berlin wall
> simply decided to leave their posts one night.
Do a lot of Americans really believe such things?
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Dr.Dimitri Vulis KOTM
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