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- Chomsky, on the "free" Nicaraguan elections of 1990:
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- [...] The most interesting point, however, is the third. Suppose that
- the USSR were to follow the U.S. model as the Baltic states declare
- independence, organizing a proxy army to attack them from foreign
- bases, training its terrorist forces to hit "soft targets" (health
- centers, schools, etc.) so that the governments cannot provide social
- services, reducing the economies to ruin through embargo and other
- sanctions, and so on, in the familiar routine. Suppose further that
- when elections come, the Kremlin informs the population, loud and
- clear, that they can vote for the CP or starve. Perhaps some
- unreconstructed Stalinist might call this a "free and fair election."
- Surely no one else would.
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- [...]
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- T h e D e c l i n e o f t h e
- D e m o c r a t i c I d e a l
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- By Noam Chomsky, Z magazine, 3/90
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