
                         Roanoke Times
                 Copyright (c) 1995, Landmark Communications, Inc.

DATE: TUESDAY, March 27, 1990                   TAG: 9003270123
SECTION: EDITORIAL                    PAGE: A-6   EDITION: METRO 
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KREMLIN IS DIRECTING THE `REVOLUTION'

THE "REVOLUTION" occurring today behind the Iron Curtain is a communist revolution, designed to strengthen socialism and further entrench the communists in power. The revolution is being directed from the top down under the supervision of the Kremlin, and the changes being made are mere window dressing.

In Hungary, for instance, the communists' ruling Socialist Workers Party has simply changed its name to the Socialist Party. In other nations, ousted communist leaders are merely replaced by other communists or by coalitions controlled by communists, and "multiparty" systems are created simply by cutting a ruling Communist Party in two.

Even those reforms that sound legitimate - such as granting the right to own private property - are meaningless, for the government retains its control over everything. Many of the phony reforms now taking place, in fact, were predicted by KGB defector Anatoly Golitsyn in his 1984 book, "New Lies for Old." The communists are simply following Lenin's advice "to use any ruse, dodges, tricks, cunning, unlawful method, concealment, and veiling of the truth" to advance this conspiracy. HOPE A. MEADOR ROANOKE

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