Western Aid to Soviet Union

Seems that the leader of the democratic world, our President Bush, is determined to sustain Gorbachev and his totalitarian state. Instead of being a beacon for freedom and democracy, he supports an oppressive regime. The excuse seems to be: It’s simply easier to deal with the few than the many.

Gorbachev, a dictator in his death throes, toots his disinformation horn, which curiously finds credibility in the West. He predicts internal chaos and extreme danger to the rest of the world if his prison state ever falls apart.

Meanwhile, the Lithuanians, Latvians and Estonians keep getting trampled in their homelands by those who have no right to run their lives and destinies. This has continued for 50 long years.

It’s time for Western democracies to wake up and smell the coffee, or stop calling themselves such. Today, knowingly or not, they are participating and abetting the oppression of nations.

SIGITAS GRINKAS, Glendale