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PASTOR GENERAL'S REPORT, AUGUST 7, 1981
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resort to the oldest Russian political wisdom, that time and intrigue
will sooner or later bring results. But these events demonstrate for
the first time that the Soviet empire must reform or perish.
How to deal with Poland? The present Soviet leaders seemingly do not know
how. It will likely be up to a future generation of Soviet leadership, less
personally identified with the traumas of the Second World War, to think
their own revolutionary thoughts about Eastern Europe, perhaps to be willing
to take� risk on� partial release of these ca � tive states. In the current
edition of FOREIGN AFFAIRS, Seweryn B1aler, 1n an article entitled "The
Harsh Decade" writes concerning the U.S.S.R.'s immediate problems:
The dilemma and choices of the 1980s are harsher and more difficult
than any faced by Soviet leaders since Stalin died. In all areas of
domestic, military and foreign policy, the Soviet Union stands at a
crossroads no less significant than at the end of the New Economic
Policy in the late 1920s, and at the death of Stalin in 1953. As yet,
Soviet policy is moving in accordance with the legacy of inertia of the
1970s.
We may expect, however, that this inertia will be interrupted in the
1980s, and that a new Soviet policy will start to emerge.
--Gene H. Hogberg, News Bureau