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Soviet system "collapse".(Letter to the editor)
In Dennis Behreandt's otherwise excellent review of The Politically Incorrect Guide to Global Warming and Environmentalism (April 30), I was very disappointed to see the unmodified phrase, "It seems that following the collapse of the Soviet system ..." I wondered who was asleep at the switch. THE NEW AMERICAN has always incorporated the context provided by the revelations of Soviet defector Anatoliy Golitsyn and the fact that nothing substantial in terms of control has changed in the communist countries since 1989.
Also, Michael Telzrow's essay on Aaron Burr, "A Missed Shot at Treason," gave an able summary of the facts but left the reader with ...
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