Trade with Soviet Union
Sir,—From time to time over the last 50 years, Western administrations have declared a “new” policy of peaceful trade with the Soviet Union as the road to a world at peace. Bridge building to the Soviets began in 1918 under the United States President, Woodrow Wilson, before the Bolsheviks had physically gained control of more than a fraction of Russia. As a result of this trade by the United States and Western European countries, the Bolsheviks were able to consolidate their totalitarian regime. It appears that 50 years of trade with the Soviets has, through the transfer of free enterprise technology, created a formidable economic and military power. It is an essential but ignored truth that peaceful trade can only flow from a world at peace. Trade cannot create peace. The blunt unwelcome fact is that “peaceful trade” with Statist countries is a non sequitur. Statist systems create wars and internal suppression. This was as true of Hitler’s Germany as.it is of Soviet Russia. For peaceful, trade you must first have a world at peace. Trade is a symptom of, and not the. cause of, peace.— Yours, etc., ALEX HOGGAN. January 27, 1986.
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Press, 31 January 1986, Page 16
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