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Ted Armstrong
.SPIAKS OUT!
Who Won at Helsinki?
l
ter nearly 30 years of patient
striving, the Soviet Union has
finally achievad a major geo·
political dream - the formal
recognition of the Eastern European
empire it acquired in the aftermath
of World War
11.
By puning their signaturas to the
mammoth 100-page, 30,000-word
East-West charter at the European
summit in Helsinki earlier this
month, the Unitad States ano its
Nonh Atlantic allies effectively rati·
fied Moscow'
s
control over Eastern
Europe and guaranteed the in–
violability of the post-World War
11
European frontoers.
Soviet óomination over the east·
em hall of the divided European
continent is now a formalizad fact
- though the Westem powers were
not likely to change the status quo
anyway. For to do so could mean 8
hot war with the Soviet Un ion itself.
Western inaction in tha Hungarian
revolt of 1g55 and the Crech uprising
of 1g68 proved that
fact
condusively.
The agreemant gives the Soviets
the feeling - and that is very im·
portant to them - that they at last
have acquirad a completely sacure
and stable western flank, so'mething
they have desired for three decades,
considering their horrible . experi.
ences in World War
11 .
W ith' the sig·
natures now in place on the summit
document, the peoples of. Eastern
Europe - who have been unfortu·
nately placad by late in 8 sand·
wiched position between mejor
world power blocs - will resign
themselves, if they have not already
long since done so. to the reality of
permanent Soviet domination, real–
izing the pointlessness of further
open resistance. Furthermore, the
Helsinki charter virtually wri tes off
al)y funher complaints , from the
United St8tes and the nations of
Western Europe about Soviet domi–
nation of the East {resistad
as
it is, in
pan, by both Yugoslavia and Ro–
manía) .
Secondly, the agreement frees the
Soviet Union to turn its anentions to
its greatest ant8gonist and biggest
worry of the moment, .Communist
14
China . The Chinese have been
strongly urging various Western Eu·
ropean leaders -
such as • Ger·
many's Franz Josef Strauss - to
keep alive the issue of a divided Eu·
rope and a divided Germany, so as
to keep Soviet anention focusad on
Europe. China had hopad thos would
cause the Soviets to divert some of
theor military strength from the
Russo.Chinese bordar to the Euro·
pean front.
The Helsinki accord has done
8way with all of that. lt means that
now the Soviets are free to do just
the opposite -
to mass tl:oeir
troops, if they wish, along the vota–
tole Chinese border. the possibility of
a two-front war now remole.
Thirdly, Helsinki will pave the way
for the Soviet Union to gaon a great
deal more influence in Western Eu·
rope. In an atmosphere of growing
détente, the Soviets can count on
funher reductions of U.S. torces in
Europe and a general weakening of
ties between the U.S. and NATO.
The Kremlin, according to some
analysts, is hoping for an eventual
clash of military, monetary, and
po–
lilocal interests between the United
States and its West European pan–
ners. The Soviet plan, they claim, is
to eventually oust the United States
completely from the West European
sphere of influence.
•
A recent issue of
USA,
the Soviet
journal of American studies, almost
looks rorward to growing dis·
harmony between the Unotad States
and its West European partners over
critica! issues of energy policy, trade
and monetary reform as a welcome
side benefit of détente.
Moscow regards tensions in the
Atlantic alliance over these key is–
sues as more natural than the "tem·
porary" compromiso that has
patched them up in the aftermath of
the 1973 Middle East War and sub·
sequent Arab oil embargo.
" Any crisis or shock in the ínter·
national situation, " says the
USA
ar·
ticle, "could easily tear the fabric of
that compromiso to expose tqe clash
of interests which exists between the •
two centers of imperialist rivalry."
The Soviet Union is cenain to em·
bark• now on a campaign to show
Western Europeans that their natural
interests lie
to the east
on the Euro·
pean contonent, not west across the
Atlantic . The -Kremlin ultimately
hopes to ease Westem Europe away
from the American orbit and into the
Soviet orbit, possibly even signing a
full -blown mutual non-aggression
.pact w)th West European govern·
ments, perhaps by then a "United
States of Europa." Within the frame–
work of a " European collective secu·
rity system," the two of them could
then. if they so desire. go about the
business. as mutual partners, of dis·
mantling the Unoted States!
The United States had hoped to
achieve, through détente, a less–
ening of the tensions th.at have
threatened to lead, the world to nu·
clear destruction. We have been will·
ing to achieve this at any price -
vinually giving away technological
secrets, selling U.S grain at ridicu·
lously low prices, allowing the So–
viet Un•on to catch up in the arms
race. and fonally, with the "hand·
shake in
sp~e"
allowing the world
The Soviet plan is to
eventual/y oust the
United Sta tes com–
plete/y from the
West European sphere
of influence.
to believe the Soviet space program
was equal to ours.
We had hoped that instead of
truculence, these concessions on
ourpart would cause the Soviets lO
show a linte bit of a change of hean.
But
hall8
they7 Recent history easily
answers that.
The Soviet Unoon interprets the
Helsinki document as formal recog–
nition of the present status quo of a
diilided Europe with its eastern pup·
pet states. The United States ínter·
prets it as meaning that the Soviet
Union is going to
open up
these
puppet states to freer immigration,
freer social and information ex·
change, and freer travel. The U.S.
sees it as meaning essentially one
thing, the Soviet Union as another.
And what is even more incredible,
the chaner is not even legally bi nd·
ingl lt is a mere declaration of
intent
~
such as the many U.N. declara·
tions concerning human freedom
which Moscow has signed in the
past. and then ignored.
So
1
ask: Can you trust the Rus–
sians7 Ar& the Russian promises of
any real worth7 All you' ve got to do
is look at Korea, 81 the M iddle East.
at SALT l. Look 81 any Soviet pro
m:
ise at any time in history - and you
can easily answer that quest ion for
yourselves. Has the Soviet Union
really accepted the idea of peaceful
coexistence?
Has she really droppad the pro–
gram spellad out by so many Soviet
leadO{S and theorists of complete.
total domination of the entirety of
theworld?
Oétente is merely 8 period of time
in which the Soviet Union - with·
out the harshness of the Cold War
and therefore without the constan!
posture of alertness on the pan of
the West - can subtly pursue ots
same goal of expanding Soviet in·
fluence but in a climate where the
West is likely to let its gu8rd down.
Oétente means simply another op–
portunity to advance on all fronts -
to exploit every conceivable advan·
tage possible in the geopolítica! ma·
neuvering for world powerl
"The Communists have become
more clever in my country," Nobel
Prize winning Soviet 8uthor Alexan–
der Solzhenitsyn observad recently.
" They do not say, 'We're going to
bury you' anymore. Now they say,
' Detente.· But nothing has changed
in Ccimmunist ideology. The goals
are the same as they were...." The
exiled author has labeled the Hel–
sinki accord "the funeral of Eastern
Europe."
Whether we know ot or 1101, World
War lll is already being fought -
and lost by the United States A tr&–
mendous ideological struggle is un–
derway between the superpowers
that most people remaon utterly una·
ware of today. Behind all the smiles,
the treaties. the handshakes, the
cocktail panies, the peace confer·
ences, the arms limitation talks, the
force raduction negotiations, World
War
111
is in full swing right nowl
And the Soviet Union is winning the
mejor banles. the big concessions
- and the Unitad States os seem–
ongly more than willing to give her
more every day.
The time may come when Ameri–
cans will wish that our president had
decided not to go to Helsinki, or, if
he did go. that he would hav'l de–
mandad prior action by the Soviets
- a show of their good f8ith by
8ctually opening Eastern borders
be–
lora signing the security document.
The Unitad St8tes is doing busi·
ness with its enemies - blindly giv–
ing away political and social
concessions. military and tech·
nological advantages. The Bible la–
beis these dealings
harlotry -
. international prostitution on the part
of a nation which should
be
trusting
in God and not in toreign 811íances
and treaties. Of our n8toon God
de–
clares. "The way of peace they
know not; and there is no judgment
in their goings: they have made
them crooked paths; , whosoever
goeth therein shall not know peace"
{lsa. 59:8).
D
WEEK ENDINO AUGUST 23.
1975