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8/12/2019 1989 Issue 8 - From Russia With Glasnost - Counsel of Chalcedon
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''From Russia with
Glasnost''
by Robert C. Michelson
During 1988, the United States once
again completed the changing of the
guard, and
as
we watched, we noted with
interest changes occurring
in
the world
arena-
changes which
our
new presi
dent has had to confront daily. Of par
ticular interest is Soviet leader Mikhail
Gorbachev's program
of
perestroika
(restructuring) and offer
of
glasnost
(openness). Just before the inauguration,
a foreign delegation of 110 experts from
45 countries was allowed to inspect the
Soviet Shikhany chemical weapons fa
cility near Moscow in which they stock
pile a quarter to one half a megaton of
chemical warfare agents (like the yel
low rain used in Afghanistan). Only six
months earlier the Soviets denied having
any such weaponsat all. In Septemberof
1987, three Democratic members of the
U.S. Congress were invited
to
visit the
Krasnoyarsk phased array radar station
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which the Reagan administration main
tained was a major breach of the 1972
Anti-Ballistic Missile Treaty.
These were some
of
the
ftrSt
ex
amplesofSovietattemptsatglasnost,but
asNickEberstadtoftheAmericanEnter
prise Institute points out in an article
entitled
Unraveling the Soviet s New
Message (Insight,
December28, 1987),
The conceptof glasnost fits into a long
standing Soviet practice of image-mak
ing and of limited amounts of informa
tion released for specific purposes. In
fact, while the term is usually translated
into 'openness' in English, it translates
equally well into 'publicity' or 'propa
ganda'.
The United States is an
open
soci
ety. We have large phased array radar
facilitiesalong ourborders and we main
tain stockpiles of chemical warfare
agents within the continental United
NUMBER KILLED SINCE WWII
100 150
200
States
and
in remote locations such as
Johnston Island in the Pacific. f the
Soviet Union is now going to become
more open, in
what
ways will they differ
from America' s open society?
Even i fwe were to view glasnostas
a genuine openingofSoviet affairs to the
scrutiny of the West as opposed to an
other
fonn
of propaganda, major differ
ences in ideology still prevail. The So
viet Union, in spite
of
Billy Graham's
comments regarding their freedom of e
ligion, is an atheistic society. That is not
to say that they are godless. Man is the
supreme being of he Soviet Union. Hu
manism is their religion and competing
religions such as Christianity are sup
pressed.
The
Soviet Union also exports and
promotes revolution. They are warlike.
Though actions often speak louder than
words, Soviet actions and words have
historically gone hand-in-hand. Con
sider
theWarsawPactattacks on foreign
aircraft Most people are quite familiar
with the Soviet destruction of the South
Korean airliner over the Sea of Japan in
1983, but few realize that there is a grim
history ofsuch attacks over the past forty
years. During the 1950's
it
was risky
business flying near Warsaw Pactcoun
tries, particularly
i f
you were
in
a mili
tary
aircraft
Note that many Warsaw
Pact air incidents occurred during t e
TrumanandEisenhower years as a result
of
NATO
intelligence gathering mis-
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SOVIET AND WARSAW PACT AIR INCIDENTS
SINCE THE END OF THE SECOND WORLD WARt
. '
Location Target
Betlin
British
Viclcefll
Vikin airliner
SeaofJapan tisd
RB 29 Recon.
2
Baltic
Sea
.USN patrol aircraft
Arctic
Ocean
USRc:ron.
2
Hungary
USAF
C-47
transport
Berlin
French airliner
air
o r r i d o r
O f f J a p ~
USRecon.
2
Baltic
Sea.
Swedish.C-47
Baltic
Sea
transpqrt .
Swedish ~ u e aircraft
: N o r t h J a p ~ ' USAF bomber
Berlin'
us aircraft
.air
corridor
WestGerm Uly USAFF-84
~ l i n
British Vickers
air
corridor Viking airliner
WestGermany British Avro Lincoln
bomber
Soviet border USRecQn.
2
SeaofJapap
USAF bomber
Hungary British DC-3
Yellow Sea USRectm.
2
Czech border 2 US traineraircraft
Yugoslavia 2 Belgiancargo
aircraft
E.
Vladivostok
USN Neptune Recon.
2
Offiapan
USAF bomber
Bering Strait
USN Neptune aircraft
Bulgaria . Israeli
Lockheed
Constellation airliner
SovietAnnenia
US
transport aircraft
Kamchatka
USAF RB50 Recon.
2
Peninsula
Soviet Armenia
USAF
transpOrt
Baltic. Sea
. USRecon.
2
Sea of
Japan
USRccon.
2
Seaof
Japan USN patrol aircraft
Soviet Union
US
Lockheed U2
Recon.
2
Barents Sea
USAFRB47 Recon.Z .
Laos
us light aircraft
Iran
Iranian mapping
East Germany
US
trainer aircraft
East Germany
US
RB6 Recon.
2
Soviet Karelia
South Korean airliner
Boeing707
Soviet Armenia Argentiniancargo acft.
Sea
of
Japan South Korean airliner
Boeing747
Gotland, S \ V e d ~ s h chartered
Baltic Sea
airbus
3H)
Result
14dead
No injuries
10dead
10dead
Damaged,
no injuries
4wounded
No injuries
. 8 missing;
probably
dead
.. ?rescued
1 wounded
8dead
Noinjurie8
lrescuedi
No
i.I)juries
5dead,
2rescued
1
No injuries
16dead
No injuries
Noinjuries
No injuries
1 dead,
2wounded
1 dead,
9re
scued
1 dead,
10iescued
1
?wounded
58 dead
No injuries
No injuries
17dead
No injuries
No injuries
1 wounded .
1 rescued
1
4dead
,
2rescued
1
No injuries
Not known
3de
ad
No
injuries
2dead,
13wounded
Crew dead
269dead
Comments
Airlinerhit by Soviet fighters
at
5 5 ft altitude just before landing.
Attackedby o v i e ~ fighters
Probably shot
doWil
some 80nn1 southeast
of
Gotland Part
of
a
wrecked plane, including penetrated landing gear, found.
Shot
down by Soviet fighters
321rJn
outside Soviet territory
in
the
vicinity ofVladivootoic:.
Two Soviet
pilots
decorated.
N a v i g a t i o n ~ e r r o r . Aircraft forced down. Crew released.
Attacked
by
two Soviet MiG15s in the corridor between
Frankfurt and Berlin. Escaped in cloud.
No detaikreveated.
Probably shot
dOwn
by Soviet fighters outside dotland.
Only lifera tfolli -d;'penetrated by Soviet ammunition.
Shot dowil:by o Soviet MiG15s .Emergency ditching at sea.
. Crewrescued. . . .
Shot down by Soviet
fig iters
off n
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INCIDENTS INVOLVING US MILITARY AIRCRAFT
5
ruman
4
3
2
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0
1949 1950
1951
1952 1953 1954 1955 1958 1959 1960 1964
sions over or near Warsaw Pact airspace.
Incidents involving
U.S
.militaryaircraft
becamelessfrequentintheearly60 snot
so much due to the change in the U.S.
administration policy, but due to ad
vances in technology. In the early 60 s
electronic and photographic intelligence
missions could be conducted
by
the
newly developed Air Force/Lockheed
SR-71 Black Bird) spy plane which
until
just recently had the greatest ex
tremes
of
speed and
altitude
of
any
air
craft, thereby making it almost impervi
ous to Soviet defences. About the same
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time theuse ofspy satellites became fea
sible. In spite of decreases in overflight
provocations by NATO reconnaissance
aircraft, Warsaw Pact attacks
on
civilian
aircrafthave continued.
Attacks on civilian aircraft, espe
cially those over non-Warsaw Pact ir-
space, are the actsofa nation at war. The
SovietUnion in spiteof ts
perestroika
and
glasnost
is at war with the West, but
even
more
so, it is at war with Christ The
Soviet
Union can
grow
to
look more
and
more like the United States but they will
never have
the
Christian heritage thathas
made theWest prosperous andfree. The
Soviet Union boasts in its Bolshevik
Revolution but what
it
desperately needs
is a Christian reformation.
0.
~ ~ ~ ~ ~ 1 1 1 1 1 ] ~ ~
Rob
ert Michelson is a member
of
the
Re
-
search Faculty at the Georgia Institute of
Technology
in
Atlanta, Georg1a, and
is
Heaii
of
he Institute s Instrumentation Technology
Branch. e is a Deacon at the Cherokee Pres-
b Jterian Church (PCAJ
in
Woodstock Geor-
g ~ a a church started
by
Chalcedon Presby-
terian Church.
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