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mr president the uh the world has been
virtually turned upside down in the two
and a half years since the berlin wall
came down a new dynamic is a word
emerging and also emerging
is a new russia as a great superpower
yet this russia is having trouble
getting its feet on the ground so to
speak and and turning its directions
into a capitalist economy a free market
economy uh you have made recommendations
not only in your book but in your
speeches and at your recent conference
about what the united states should do
to help russia and you've also pointed
out what the consequences of not helping
russia will be would you share with us
your thoughts
well russia at the present time is at a
crossroads
it is often said that the cold war is
all over and that the west has won it
that's only half true
because what has happened is that the
communists have been defeated
but the ideas of freedom now are on
trial if they don't work there there
will be a reversion
to
not communism which has failed but what
i call a new despotism which would pose
a mortal danger
to the rest of the world because it
would have been infected with the virus
of russian imperialism which of course
has been a characteristic of russian
foreign policy for centuries we begin
with that therefore the west has the
united states has all those who want
peace and freedom in the world a great
stake in freedom succeeding in russia
if it succeeds it will be an example for
others to follow it will be helpful for
china for example to follow
for the other communist states the few
that remain
if it fails
it means that the hardliners in china
will get a new life they will say it
failed there there's no reason for us to
turn to democracy that's part of what is
at stake here
the other point that we have to have in
mind
is that it's vitally important that it
succeed
because it means that russia
which for 70 years has been exporting or
trying to export the ideas of communism
to the world will now be exporting the
ideas of freedom the ideas of democracy
the goods of freedom it means that
russia for example will be able to
export goods that'll be a huge export
market for example for the united states
and other countries so i would simply
sum it up to say for our korean audience
it means a great deal to korea too
because russia
the soviet union i should say was a very
strong supporter of north vietnam
russia will not be a supporter of north
vietnam and that means that
we have here a potential ally
joining with the united states and other
country other free countries in putting
pressure on north korea not to go
forward with a nuclear option
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