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wEM'Y FREE PRESS, WEDNESDAY, APRIL 5, 1989, -PAGE 7 PAGE SEVEN ALEREDY BEH?!"U czrs hepepe Fusi.ae fnallyassuing owerove an mdeats ik Aexndr elsi i oscownheronda aD E We hpre tyvew such ews fr Mr th ommunistwrd ofrothe smug ersp adegtiv ae ate they a veraly eenthe .g czasg hte0forseofweiore he blant fiuresowor ownr sthem. Butafarom TheéRusino an ioperspeiwerthei anboranthey Aeadr et de moas Sucheae the solitudearatved uhnesf the Cold War.orl Yetgruil the s yn espciethesis tyhae Ma preictei coming to pass. The western world has inched toward greater government involvement in the economy and greater responsibility for the welfare of its people, and at the samne time, governments have become more distant - we eleet them but only as a necessary evil. For its part the Communist world is moving fr-om tight state control of the economy towards more individual initiative and more mnvolvement of citizens ini the government. While the west has moved fromn populist, wide-open ______________________________________ governnients towards bigger institutionaized government, the communists have been coming the other way. The ideological gap between us is now more imagined than real. For ail the supposed lack of freedom in communist countries, western TV cameras have been there for years recording the proteste and interviewing the dissidents.J Obviously such people haven't felt.much risk from speaking out. The days of the Siberian. saltmines, purges, and psychiatric reprogremmidng have long since disappeared. The Soviet Union remains a one-party state in name only. Although 85% of the candidates in their recent election were party members, there is within the party such a wide range of opinions that any sense of monohithic power is illusion. The range of idealogy in the Russian Communist Party is almost as great as the Democratic Party in the United States. -As our two systems inch toward the middle, they share one common burden - bureaucracy. While Gorbachev has harnessed the aspirations of the Russian people to do something about it, western governments do their damndest to persuade us the problem isn't there. Bureaucracy is insidious. We hàte it, yet accept it. It is the power of the tiny cog in the huge apparatus - it does so little, yet can grind the whole machine to a hait. The Russians have accepted it for the last fifty years as it gobbled up more and more of their money and sweat. Life was a littie leaner, but ail for the good of the country. Here in Canada, where democracy is so close to our hearts, we tolerate the constant bickering between three levels of governinent on how they will divvy up our money. We tolerate a post office which feels compelled to spend money advertisingy what good service it provides instead of offic ii in the boonies ... Or the obscure-ea'ror wno convertea a minor Party newspaper inta an outspoken tabloid. And most The Chember of Commerce lias formed a special committee ta, study the future of the old important, he unleashed dissidents like Sakharov ta lead the* County Court House. the hoc wae. he breacras sillsmar frm te auseEighty-one students at Anderson CVI had an average of over 70% in the Easter exems. that's been heaped upon them and wiil resist their extinction to the bitter end but the die is cast - even if Gorbechev were 75 YBARS AGO overthrown tomorrow, the genie is out of the bottle. from the Thursday, April 2, 1914 edition of the The irony of ail this is that our smug assurance in the WHITBY GAZITZ AND CHRONICLE inherent superiority of our system may be in for some rapid* Town Council lias directed Engineer T. Aird Murray ta plan a sanitery sewer systemn for. erosion. Take the idealism of Marx - from each according to wituy costing $100,000. lis abilities, ta. each according to bis needs - add a multi-* No grinding is being done at the Brooklin ii as the dam at the miilpond lias broken. Party democracy with free elections, more freedom, leaner* The Whitby voted ilst lias increased by four pages ta 52 pages Imuse of the mnai» government and ... well, our western governnients wiil seem workers at the Ontario Hospital site. rather ponderous as they creak ominously under the weight* The Mercer Reformatary- at the west end of Toronto will not be moved ta WVhitby, says of accuxnulated deadwood. Provincial Secretary W.J. Hanna. Unless a politician cornes along who has the vision and nerve ta harness our sense of outrage. _______________________________________