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Article: Children of the damned: How we are 'saving' our children by raising them to become Serfs.(Originated from Knight Ridder/Tribune News Service)
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- June 16, 1998
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KRT FORUM (AT-RISK)
By Robert W. Tracinski
For almost a century the Soviet Union preached the doctrine of service to ``the people.'' Toil, sacrifice, and suffer, the Soviet propagandists told their subjects; it is all being done for the good of ``the people.'' As time went on, of course, the people found that they were not enjoying any of the promised rewards. Why? Because they were too busy sacrificing for ``the people.''
Communism has collapsed, but this spirit of senseless sacrifice persists today _ in the form of the most innocuous-sounding, uncontroversial bromide mouthed by today's politicians: the crusade to ``save our ...