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Page 4/The Battalion/Friday, December 4, 1987
Visiting professor
says war holds key
to Soviet system
By Janet Goode
Staff Writer
It was World War II that solidly
established the Soviet political sys
tem that still persists today, a Texas
A&M visiting professor told a group
of about 60 people Thursday night.
“If Gorbechev wishes to mobilize,
he must first de-Stalinize,” said John
Erickson, the director of defense
studies at the University of Edi-
burgh, Scotland.
Erickson said he is the only West
erner ever to have been given access
to the Soviet Military Archives.
In his lecture at the MSC, spon
sored by the Strategic Defense
League, Erickson said that the his
tory of the war must be studied so
Gorbachev can see what united the
people and the nation and why the
system didn’t collapse.
“Whatever Stalin did to the Rus
sians — the Germans did much mo
re,” Erickson said.
Erickson said the Russians in the
war knew they were in a race for sur
vival.
"This is the key point," he said. "It
began to dawn on tnem (Soviets) that
this wasn’t a war.
“This was a race with time. If they
didn’t win, they were going to simply
disappear.”
He attributes much of the Soviet
Union’s survivability to what he calls
the three S’s: signals, steam and sup-
ply.
Erickson said that signals rep
resent the Soviet Union’s commu
nications system. In spite of their
crudity, he said, the Soviet commu
nication systems actually worked.
Steam refers to the railways that
were used for industrial evacuation
in the war where there were vast tra
ffic problems, he said.
Finally, he said that Soviet sup
plies, although disorganized, were
usually obtainable because of the in
terlocking administrative nets that
were in place. For example, he said,
Stalin illegally made some state of
fices military, such as the postal serv
ice.
“It was considered a defection
from the war not to show up for
work,” he said.
The first examination that needs
to be made in redesigning the Soviet
political system concerns what kind
of war World War II was, Erickson
said.
“Their war, the Great Patriotic
War, was both militarily and morally
unique,” he said.
“It was the greatest land campaign
in the history of the world and it was,
for the first time in history, a genoci-
dal war,” he said. “It was a war of
enslavement and extermination.
“It was the first time that children
were killed systematically.”
“I think that the truth has
got to be told about the
war (World War II) from
Gorbachev’s side and the
Soviet society with all the
sadness and sorrow before
he can succeed in evolving
a current Soviet response
in galvanizing his society
in the direction he wants. ”
— John Erickson, Texas
A&M visiting professor
and director of defense
studies at the University
of Ediburgh, Scotland
The human loss on the Soviet side
has been recorded in the West as be
ing 20 million, Erickson said.
In reality, there were 45 to 47 mil
lion lives lost and there are 27 mil
lion people still missing today, he
said.
“Also, only 3 percent of people
between the ages of 17 and 21 sur
vived in the Soviet Union during the
war,” he said. “This is a massive slice
of society.”
In a strange way, the war legiti
mized the Stalinist state, Erickson
said, because it was a victorious state.
“Many people still say, ‘Please
don’t tear it down, we spent too
much blood, we had too little bread,
we produced too much steel,’ ” he
said.
Erickson said Stalin played a large
part in forming this society.
“It is perfectly true that he ran it
all by naked personal authority,” he
said.
“It is perfectly true he ran it by
personal control — he had his eyes
and his ears everywhere,” he said.
Another question Erickson said
needs to be studied concerns what
galvanized these people to act.
Besides survival, Erickson listed
firm leadership, disciplined behav
ior and obedience and especially
steadfastness.
Gorbechev wants to reproduce
these qualities that united the nation,
Erickson said, especially steadfast
ness and devotion.
“I think that the truth has got to
be told about the war from Gorba
chev’s side and the Soviet society
with all the sadness and sorrow be
fore he can succeed in evolving a
current Soviet response in galvaniz
ing his society in the direction he
wants,” Erickson said.
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