Nixon Urges Aid to Russia

When the Berlin Wall was pulled down, the West blazoned forth the end of the Cold War. The dissolution of the Soviet Union was heralded as the “demise” or “collapse” of the U.S.S.R. The world still looks bewitched by the ensuing rapture, which, for all intents and purposes, was so unwisely premature. As the Russian saying goes: “Don’t say hop before you jump.”

All those who still retain vivid memories of their harrowing experience of the Bolshevik regime will wholeheartedly endorse former President Nixon’s grim warning: The Western democracies have yet to win the Cold War.

Boris Yeltsin’s fledgling democracy is in need of:

-- Immediate massive, all-embracing assistance from the free world to avert the collapse of his government.

-- The dismantling in double-quick time of the 27,000 nuclear weapons that still pose the most serious threat to the very existence of the freedom-loving and genuinely democratic nations of the world.

Last but not least, one more aspect is also of paramount importance. For 70 years the communist autocrats, in iniquitous collusion with the KGB, infiltrated and infested every unit of social and private life of their citizens. The Hoover Institution’s recent access to secret Soviet files carries historical significance. For immediate tangible results, however, Russia needs the assistance and watchful eye of the CIA inside that vast empire, to exterminate the parasitic vermin that plagued the society for 70 years.

Nixon’s shrewd warning calls for immediate action now.

BERGE MESROPYAN, North Hollywood