Fruits of Russian reform. (Letters to the Editor).

In response to the recent article by William F. Jasper on Vladimir Putin and the war in Chechnya ("Putin: Ally or Terrorist?" February 25th), I wish to congratulate THE NEW AMERICAN on continuing to speak the truth regarding the Soviet-Russian reform process.

I know what it is like to try and speak against the storm wave of media opinion that in the last decade soaked the American public in propaganda that Communism is dead. However, as time marches on it becomes increasingly difficult to make people understand that what transpired has not evolved into anything genuine, as some have come to believe. It was to answer this question more effectively that I journeyed twice in the past two years to the former USSR to study at length the impact of the strategic disinformation strategy.

Last summer in the city of Nizhny Novogorod, while I was in Moscow, voters elected a Communist as mayor by a nearly sixty percent majority. The election was watched on national news all over Russia, while I doubt much word of it reached the West. Russia's "free market" is a scam. It consists primarily of two ...