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Here is a Letter to the Editor I wrote/published Wednesday, January 15,1992 regarding both Russia and Ukraine as published in a major American daily newspaper:
"LEARN FROM HISTORY
As the former Soviet Union flounders into a more democratic process, we might do well to print Russian language versions of American history texts dealing with the United States' failure under the Articles of Confederation, immediately following the Revolutionary War.
Each American state wanted, and had, its own military. Each levied customs duty upon the commerce of the other states. Each coined/printed its own currency. Congress was a weak and ineffectual body, as was the presidency and the US Supreme Court.
Does this sound like the status in the former USSR today? If history has to repeat itself in Russia, Ukraine, etc., then we as a world civilization have learned little.
Strong, unifying democratic leadership is lacking in the Commonwealth of Independent States that has displaced the USSR. It begins to look like the weak Duma that briefly existed between the Czar and the USSR.
If the United States export only one thing a a first priority to the former USSR, let it be common sense. Ambassador Strauss should have ample history grounding to offer ideas to the new commonwealth. Is he speaking out to them?"
"LEARN FROM HISTORY
As the former Soviet Union flounders into a more democratic process, we might do well to print Russian language versions of American history texts dealing with the United States' failure under the Articles of Confederation, immediately following the Revolutionary War.
Each American state wanted, and had, its own military. Each levied customs duty upon the commerce of the other states. Each coined/printed its own currency. Congress was a weak and ineffectual body, as was the presidency and the US Supreme Court.
Does this sound like the status in the former USSR today? If history has to repeat itself in Russia, Ukraine, etc., then we as a world civilization have learned little.
Strong, unifying democratic leadership is lacking in the Commonwealth of Independent States that has displaced the USSR. It begins to look like the weak Duma that briefly existed between the Czar and the USSR.
If the United States export only one thing a a first priority to the former USSR, let it be common sense. Ambassador Strauss should have ample history grounding to offer ideas to the new commonwealth. Is he speaking out to them?"
