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Article: Too many communists. (independence movement in Ukraine)
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- National Review
- Article date:
- April 30, 1990
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THE Polish-Soviet border at Medyka could be a case study in the inefficiencies of totalitarianism. A line of cars stretches for five miles on either side of the border. Angry, pale, dirty people sit and sleep in their cars, as they wait 36 hours and more. Groups of vigilantes-both Soviet and Polish, armed with axes and bricks-man barricades to stop people from jumping the line. Glass fragments from smashed windshields and headlights crunching under the tires testify that they mean business. Although I had press credentials, I spent all night on the border while the guard repeatedly telephoned Moscow to ask if he could let me through, since my visa did not specifically ...
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