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"Today's Soviet leadership may inaugurate any program short of war without fear of opposition on the part of the Russian people," Alex Inkeles, professor of Sociology, told the Hillel Round Table of World Affair yesterday.
This freedom or Russian oligarchy is especially significant, Inkeles said, because it is based on the loyalty of the people rather than the police terrorism used by Stalin. However, he stressed that Khruschchev achieved his reforms without changing the essential nature of the Soviet state. In fact, the Russian peasant has actually lost autonomy while he has become more satisfied with his material condition.
Inkeles added that the United States seems finally to have recognized the stability of the Soviet regime. President Kennedy indicated this change in the American outlook during his recent interview with the editor of lzvestla.
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