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To: Thomas M. who wrote (2036)	8/15/2002 3:22:36 PM
From: Brumar89	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 6945

I don't think Chomsky ever said a critical word about the Soviet Union till it was a lost cause and had shown Communism to be a miserable failure. And according to you, this was only becaue it would have too easy. Not because his sympathies were with the Soviet Union, of course. The hardest possible thing to do was to state that the U.S. and the Soviet Union were competing empires, both trampling on the rights of the rest of the world. Here you're claiming the US and the former Soviet Union are morally equivalent. Pretty insulting. Even Russians acknowledge the USSR was an evil empire. Of course, Chomsky didn't actually do even this. At least I don't think so. I've invited you to give an example of Chomsky criticizing the Soviet Union prior to its failure but you haven't done so yet. You just gave an excuse (the too easy thing) and tried to falsely claim he was even-handed.