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WJPBR Email News List [EMAIL PROTECTED] Peace at any cost is a Prelude to War! Communism Thrives, Freedom Fighters Warn Wes Vernon, NewsMax.com Thursday, Dec. 13, 2001 WASHINGTON – "There are those who talk on and on about the fall of communism. Don’t you believe it!” Those words from Sen. Jesse Helms, R-N.C., set the tone Tuesday night at the Victims of Communism Foundation’s Freedom Awards Dinner. The senator was among those honored by the foundation. The award was presented to the longtime conservative lawmaker for his role in the decades-long fight against communism. He has announced his retirement at the end of his fifth term next year. Noting, for example, that in China, the policy of one child a family has resulted in scenes of drowning little newborn baby girls – "Bless their hearts” – Helms told the gathering, "Someone forgot to tell them that the Cold War is over.” He followed it up with stories of atrocities in such communist dictatorships as Cuba and North Korea. A similar warning was sounded by Vladimir Bukovsky, the other awardee at the dinner. The Soviet dissident and human rights activist said the death of communism, to paraphrase Mark Twain, seems to have been greatly exaggerated. If you are talking merely in a military sense, NATO vs. the Soviet-controlled empire, "then, yes, we won.” But Bukovsky reminded his audience that the Cold War was never solely about military might. It was also a war of ideas. And on that front, he said, the war is not over. "Would we have accepted a milder version of Nazism in Germany following World War II?” he asked. Then why do we accept a milder form of communism throughout the former Soviet Union and in Eastern Europe? "If this is victory, then I must have been on the wrong side,” added the man who was arrested by the KGB for supposedly "slandering the government.” The featured speaker of the evening, Dr. Zbigniew Brzezinski, onetime national security adviser in the Carter administration, added his own take to the warnings to those who think we can all live happily ever after. "The Soviets [promulgated] the conditions that led to the rise of terrorism,” he declared. In the heat of the aftermath of World War II, he said, would the free world have tolerated a mausoleum honoring the Gestapo? No? Then why are we so passive when in Russia there is a mausoleum to those who created the dreaded predecessors to the KGB? Even President Bush was the object of some criticism by Brzezinski. He noted that in his World Freedom Day proclamation read to the dinner that same night, the president had talked of "fascists and totalitarians” of the 20th century. Two Sides of the Same Coin "Actually, Nazi Germany and Soviet communism were the two great evils that made the 20th century the worst, most lethal century in history,” said one of the Carter administration's few officials to gain the respect of President Ronald Reagan. Why is President Bush hesitant to spell out communism as the other evil, in addition to Nazism or fascism? Brzezinski wanted to know. To him, that reflects an inhibition that permeated the entire Cold War: i.e., naming the enemy. Some psychological warfare specialists at the time attributed that to a deliberate plan by the enemy to install reluctance in the Western World to attack communism by its name. However, Brzezinski, counselor at the Center for Strategic and International Studies, did caution his audience not to get too carried away with pessimism about the future of post-Soviet Russia. Russian will ultimately have no choice but to move to the West, he said. After all, that nation has among its neighbors millions of Moslems. "It is a different Russia,” Brzezinski added, "not a perfect Russia,” but one whose "experiment with democracy is not doomed to failure. We should not succumb to historical pessimism.” That advice seemed to contradict the comments of Soviet dissident Bukovsky, who derided President Bush for saying he had looked into Russian President Vladimir Putin’s soul. "What we have is the full power of the KGB,” Bukovsky warned. He also cautioned the West against trusting such "Judas friends” as China and Russia to help in the war on terrorism. "To say, as [British Prime Minister] Tony Blair did, that Russia and China have experience in dealing with terrorists is like saying Germany had experience in dealing with Jews," he went on. Russia’s policy, he insisted, is one of "back to the U.S.S.R.” White House aide Tim Goeglein read the proclamation that had been issued on World Freedom Day, 2001. While cheering the move to free republics in many former Iron Curtain countries, the president’s statement said, "we also recognize that more than two billion people still live under authoritarian regimes. From Burma to Cuba, Belarus to Zimbabwe, citizens of many countries suffer under repressive governments. Our thoughts today, especially turn to Afghanistan. These men, women, and children [have suffered] at the of the hands of the Taliban regime, which, as we know [has aided] and abetted terrorists.” *COPYRIGHT NOTICE** In accordance with Title 17 U. S. C. Section 107, any copyrighted work in this message is distributed under fair use without profit or payment to those who have expressed a prior interest in receiving the included information for nonprofit research and educational purposes only.[Ref. http://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/17/107.shtml ] Want to be on our lists? Write at [EMAIL PROTECTED] for a menu of our lists! 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