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TOTAL HUMAN MOBILIZATION
Operating as it does under a totalitarian government, the Soviet
Union has a definite advantage over democratic governments in that it
can arbitrarily concentrate national capabilities without reference to the
general public opinion or special interests groups.
For instance, the Soviet Union possesses an almost complete mono-
poly on influencing the thinking of their peoples. All domestic information
media and educational systems are Communist-controlled Soviet citizens
are forbidden to travel abroad and only selected foreigners are permitted
to enter. In this manner, the Soviet Government has virtually a free hand
to mold for its people the picture of the world that it wants them to have.
Similarly it can perpetrate its myth of a Communist Utopia by preventing
a first-hand comparison between Soviet claims and reality.
At the same time these tactics make the efforts of other nations to
obtain information concerning the USSR an increasingly critical problem.
Foreign press correspondents are refused admission to the Soviet orbit;
western diplomatic missions are restricted in their operations;
US
information services within the orbit are severely circumscribed or pro-
hibited; and Bulgaria's actions leading to a break in US-Bulgarian rela-
tions marked an extreme point in the systematic campaign to nullify
western diplomatic representation in the satellites. Police surveillance
and extensive state secret laws further curtail contact between Soviet
citizens and westerners.
This complete internal control of the Soviet and satellite peoples by
a small dictatorial clique plus the lack of regard for ethical values and
accepted international norms frees the Soviet Union to choose its tactics
in the struggle with the free world and allows it to resort to any approach
that appears potentially effective.
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