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Wednesday, February 25, 1987 / University Daily Kansan
Dislike of USSR a disease,prof says
By JENNIFER FORKER
Staff writer
Gerald Mikkelson, professor of Slavic language and literature, who returned Monday from two weeks in the Soviet Union, calls the United States' dislike of the Soviet Union a disease.
"It's a disease that is harmful to our own society and culture. It hurts us more than the Soviet Union," he said.
The United States needs to let the Soviet people deal with their problems without demanding that their society duplicate that in the United States.
The Soviet Union is not striving for a carbon copy of U.S. democracy and capitalism but working to form its own version, and Mikkelson said he saw many examples of this during his stay.
the forum.
Mikkelson was invited to a peace forum sponsored by the Soviet Union from Feb. 14 to 16. Three other Lawrence residents, Mayor Sandra Praeager, City Commissioner David Longhurst and Bob Swan, a Lawrence peace activist, attended
In addition to attending the forum in Moscow, Mikelson traveled to Leningrad for four days to visit friends and to give a speech at the Leningrad Writers Association headquarters.
He then returned to the U.S. Embassy in Moscow and attended a reception in his honor. Mikkelson said about 40 of the Soviet Union's most prominent writers attended the reception.
Mikkelson said the peace forum, "Forum for a Nuclear-Free World and Survival of Humankind," was a big news item for a week in the Soviet Union. It was printed on front pages of newspapers and reported over the radio and on television news programs.
"It was clearly the biggest news item of the week," he said.
Mikkelsen said that on the final day of the forum, all 1,000 participants attended a gathering in a huge auditorium in the Kremlin. Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev gave an hour lecture addressing the changes occurring in the Soviet Union and the
importance of nuclear disarmament.
Mikkelsen said Gorbache spoke openly about the struggles occurring as he left.
"It was designed to persuade us to go back to our countries and speak out and persuade people that radical parties in the center of power were in their society." Mikkelsen said.
Longhurst said he thought Gorbachev was sincere in his desire to improve the Soviet economy and to end nuclear disarmament.
"I can only speculate as to all of his motivations. But I believe that who he wants to do is improve the domes and to save the Soviet Union, Longhurst said.
He said nuclear disarmament tied into Gorbachev's goal of improving the Soviet standard of living. The Soviet Union could spend more money to improve its economy if the cost for nuclear arms was reduced.
Longhurst said people from various countries who attended the forum thought that the Soviet Union was a threat to the United States to initiate peace.
Mikkelson said the Soviet people
seemed to support Gorbachev and his innovative changes. And their expertise
Books, such as "Dr. Zhivago," that until recently were banned, are now being published in the Soviet Union, and many industries are treated with moppe-
Rock music used to be prohibited, but now it plays over prominent radio stations in the Soviet Union. Mikhelson said a Soviet friend had a son who played in a rock band, and the 16 year old was known for something between a singer and a hiphop.
Mikkelson said an anti-alcohol campaign, initiated by Gorbachev, had reduced total consumption by 30 percent in the last two years.
"Getting drunk was how people coped with the dreadness of society. It was a protest that didn't get them in jail," he said. "People who drink more heavily than they should and are not alcoholics have cut down. They realize that it's stupid."
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