Fighting the cybercensor

Dr.Dimitri Vulis KOTM dlv at bwalk.dm.com
Wed Jan 29 20:41:09 PST 1997


"Phillip M. Hallam-Baker" <hallam at ai.mit.edu> writes:
> The Cold War was not won by the arms race, it was won in
> Eastern Europe which was never a major participant. The main
> instrument that won it was West German TV which broadcast
> pictures of supermarkets with full shelves into the homes
> of East Germans every night. The viewers could see that it
> was not mere propaganda and their relatives confirmed the
> fact. As a result the East German guards on the Berlin wall
> simply decided to leave their posts one night.

Do a lot of Americans really believe such things?

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Dr.Dimitri Vulis KOTM
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