At 02:34 PM 01/28/2001 -0800, you wrote:
>Good illustration of the E.P. Thompson view that the Cold War was a
>mechanism used by each systems political ruling class to maintain domination
>over their respective populations.
but both sides meddled in the periphery of the other, as when the US
supported Solidarity in Poland (ending up by corrupting it) and the USSR
helped the MPLA rebels in Angola (encouraging a different kind of
corruption). The standard was set with Hungary in 1956, where the US first
encouraged rebellion against the regime and then refused to support it, in
order to keep the peace with the USSR. It's a little like the relationship
between Oceana and Eurasia that Orwell described in _1984_.
Jim Devine [EMAIL PROTECTED] & http://bellarmine.lmu.edu/~JDevine
