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The Soviets' Peacemonger
From: The Washington Post
Date: 19871220
Author:COLMAN McCARTHY
In "The Kingdom of God Is Within You," Leo Tolstoy writes that "the rulers of the state always endeavor to involve the greatest number of citizens in the participation of the crimes which it is to their interest to have committed." The Russian who currently rules the Soviet state appears of late to be involving citizens less in violence than in its opposite, peace.
Through the renewal of the Soviet Peace Committee, an organization begun in 1949 when the Stalin years of mass murder confirmed Tolstoy's view, Mikhail Gorbachev is trying to restructure his country beyond whatever new shapings ...
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