ABSTRACT
The context of Polish events, which each commentator is discussing, the variation is a signpost to divergent opinions of Solidarity–Government relations and what the Soviet Union should do next about Poland. The pro–confrontation view is aires in a yearend review of world affairs in the Party journal Kommunist. Tasks which are new in principle and complex must be solves through the resolution of internal non–antagonistic contradictions, under the fire of imperialism and its agents”. The latest statement contains a new reference to the harmful schemes of “reactionaries,” as well as “imperialists,” which could have meant clerical forces led from Rome. The moment, opponents of socialism supported by outside forces were stirring up anarchy and seeking to channel events into a counterrevolutionary course. “The pillars of the socialist state are in jeopardy,” Brezhnev intoned. The reforms themselves were blackened in a manner which made them appear to be a threat to the interrelated doctrinal and strategic interests of the USSR.
