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By John Cotter
East Germany
We read the following in a UPI despatch in the Toronto Sun, November 14,
1989. 'East Germany's new premier says he doesn't want the Berlin Wall torn
down because he fears an influx of drugs and AIDS. Hans Modrow, 61, who was
elected yesterday, said he rejects destruction of the wall because "our nation
knows only minimal crime, hardly any AIDS, and drugs are as good as
unknown. If all those things were shoved across to us over an open border, my
policies as premier wouldn't stand a chance ".'
In the Globe and Mail, January 31, 1990, we read, "East Germans have been
snapping up erotic books ..."
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An article by John Gray of the European Bureau of the Globe and Mail, October
1, 1990, stated that, "A startling measure of the changes in East Germany in
recent months was an advertisement that appeared the other day in Neues
Deutschland. The ad was looking for anyone who wanted to take part in a
pornographic film.
Poland
We read in a Reuter News Agency despatch from Warsaw [the daily Barrie
Examiner (Ontario) August 28, 1990] that, 'For Poland's police, the equation is
harsh but simple: democracy means more crime. One year after Solidarity
toppled the Communists from power, crime has soared nearly 70 per cent and
police are struggling to stem the rising tide ... "We are going through systemic
changes in Poland - from a totalitarian police state to parliamentary democracy,
from tightly closed borders to full openness," police commander-in-chief Leszek
Lamparski said. "We no longer control citizens' behavior. And if people are
changing, they're changing for the worse". Poland's rate of 1,005 crimes per
100,000 people is still four or five times lower than that of Western Europe, but
it is quickly catching up.'
In the Globe and Mail, November 26, 1990, we read in a Jeffery Simpson
article: 'With the free market and the end of censorship have come the byproduct of pornography. Now, pornographic magazines, some in Polish, are
frequently displayed in newspaper kiosks. Sex shops, too, have arrived. And not
all Poles like this new vestige of the free market. At a rally in Lublin, a
questioner demanded to know if Lech Walesa as President of Poland would close
the shops. Walesa replied, quite seriously, "I don't agree with sex shops. But
this is a democracy, so what can I do?"' (Jeffery Simpson is the Globe and
Mail's national affairs columnist).
Hungary
A Reuter's despatch Toronto Sun, May 25, 1990, noted that in Hungary hardcore pornographic magazines are readily available. The Warsaw Pact's first sex
shop opened in Budapest last November.
Bulgaria
A Reuter's Report in the Sun, December 27, 1990, said, "Many of Bulgaria's
maternity wards, once filled with the cries of new-born babies, now lie quiet.
Doctors said there are several reasons for the fall in the number of births. One
is many pregnant women are opting for abortions, which were made freely
available for the first time last February.
China
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A UPI despatch in the Sun, October 28, 1990, said, 'The Communist Party
escalated its war of words yesterday labelling smut a subversive capitalist plot
and hinting at a new round of purges to "freshen the air of socialist China".
Soviet Russia
Dmitri N. Shalin, visiting scholar at Harvard University's Russian Research
Center, in a New York Times Service article reprinted in the Toronto Globe and
Mail, January 26, 1990, wrote, "Surely, sex in the Soviet Union predates
perestroika. But the eroticization of popular culture now afoot has glasnost
written all over it. New portents are everywhere ... (In the original article,
several news quotes are given here which disgustingly prove how perverted
Russia is becoming.)
Czechoslovakia
In an article in the Sun, December 1, 1990, Lubor J. Zink, a noted Czech emigre
and an expert on Communism in an article on the new "Democratic" President
Vaclav Havel, referred to '... a misguided and promptly exploited tolerance of
the communist apparat which was left virtually intact after the Velvet
Revolution. 'Zink records a Czech political analyst as summing up the Velvet
Revolution in the following words: 'Havel closed his eyes to the four decades of
Bolshevik crimes and left the communist infrastructure virtually intact on the
assumption that so-called reform communists would be eager to atone for their
sins. Leaving aside the reform communist absurdity that exists only as
contradiction in terms, it was a philosophically but politically naive and
devastating gesture. Even more naive and devastating than Havel's mass
release of criminals which resulted in an epidemic of murders, robberies and
rapes.'
Romania
Most illustrative of the design behind the "changes" is to be found in the case of
Romania. In an article entitled did Gorby engineer Romanian revolt? Eric
Margolis, the foreign affairs expert for the Toronto Sun, January 28, 1990,
wrote: '... the make-up of the Salvation Front is almost wholly former
Communist party bureaucrats and big-wigs. President Ion Iliescu is an old party
warhorse who - now watch this interesting coincidence - was a friend of a
certain Mikhail Gorbachev when the two studied at Moscow University ... There
is also strong suspicion that the Soviets had long planned to overthrow
Ceausescu. Gorbachev detested him and may well have said, "will no one rid me
of this irksome Romanian?" Last summer, Gorby went to East Germany and told
its Stalinist ruler to change or face ouster. Soon after, revolt erupted there and
the Honnecker regime was overturned ... Sources in Moscow report that the
KGB was very active in Romania before the rebellion and may have played a key
role in organizing the putsch against Ceausescu.'
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said (Time magazine, April 24, 1964), "I don't care what becomes of Russia. To
hell with it. All this is only the road to a World Revolution."
We will have to conclude, therefore, that Father Nicholas Gruner is right. The
changes in Communist Eastern Europe are not the "first installment" much less
the "final triumph" of Adorable MARY'S Most Immaculate Heart.
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