To the editor:

Rudyard Kipling once wrote shortly after a clever deception campaign by Russia's Czar Nicholas II in 1898, an allegory titled "The bear that walks like a man." Kipling wrote about a man who was maimed and blinded when a bear he hunted stood up, as if in supplication, and the hunter, "touched with pity and wonder" withheld his fire, only to have his face ripped away by the "steel shod paw."We live in such a time. We are led to believe that communism has collapsed; the Cold War is over; that peace has arrived; the dreaded KGB has been disbanded; and that the Soviet Empire has reformed; and in its place freedom, democracy, unity and free markets are blooming like a thousand flowers. Also that the common interests of East and West can be integrated and merged; first in Europe and then via the New World Order.

The present period of glasnost (perestroika) is a well-orchestrated script written in 1981 by the Central Committee of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union, including Mikhail Gorbachev.

Lenin stated, "We advance through retreat . . . when we are weak, we boast of strength, and when we are strong, we feign weakness."

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These "Masters of Deceit" cry peace, but in a press conference in London, Gorbachev was asked why they hadn't released the 4 million Christians from the Gulags. His terse reply was, "They deserve to be there." Still, we send Russia billions of dollars in aid when there are 30 million people unemployed in our own country.

What we have seen in the past few months is Russian theater at its best. This evil empire is still in control of the largest military machine in the history of the world. While we disarm, they continue to lie, cheat and build. This is the time of peril.

Melvin V. Lavender

West Valley City

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