Soviet Right Saw the Nation in Full Retreat

It is no less than political capitulation, retreat in all directions, the impermissible concessions to the United States and the West, that are causing irreparable damage to the national interest of the Soviet Union and transforming it into a second-rate country that is fully dependent on its so-called patrons.

In foreign relations, we have lost all of our former allies. . . . The system of military-political security that took decades to create has been destroyed. Our country . . . is on its knees.

In view of its domestic political instability, the Soviet Union of today poses an even greater threat to the West than in the years of Stalin and Khrushchev, simply because its behavior is unpredictable. When conflicts occur and blood flows in Yugoslavia, it’s one thing. . . . If the Yugoslavian scenario is acted out in a nuclear superpower that has thousands of warheads, it’s an entirely different matter. The West’s more far-sighted politicians are aware of that.