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WHEN SOME future Gibbon writes about the decline and fall of the Western World he will be listing our lunacies: racial suicide (as seen in the abortion program and im- migration) and the blindness of our ways.

Nothing illustrates this more than the Romanian story. For when that Vesuvius of communist politics erupted, we gaped. Aca- demics, media and politicians — who spend most of their time chas- ing one another’s tails — found suddenly that a hell-hole existed.

The story had been there for 40 years. But the smarties of the West weren’t interested in it, just as they weren’t interested in what Stalin was doing in the 1930s. Com- munism was somehow OK.

Respect for Nicolae Ceausescu

E ven as the dust settles over Ceausescu’s grave, we are getting ready to celebrate the release from comfortable confinement of Nelson Mandela, the black communist terrorist revered by nitwits. ”*

and his comrade-tyrants was un- bounded. In Britain, a Labor gov- ernment induced the Queen to make a fool of herself by giving the Genius of the Carpathians an honorary knighthood. (‘‘Rise, Sir Nick!?’) Washington smiled on the good fellow, and Brian Baloney was pleased to grin with him on TV in Ottawa. We had a customer for a Candu nuclear plant, you see.

Who was and still is the biggest international villain? South Africa, of course, whose government denied their Third World blacks the vote. What scoundrels! Votes in communist countries were seen as valid, however. .

Yes, South Africa, where the press can rage against its gzovern- ment; where citizens do not have to have their typewriters registered with the police so that subversive literature can be traced; where there are no slave labor camps and where an independent judiciary ex- ists. South Africa, to which ref- ugees from Marxist Mozambique stream in their thousands, with no thought at all for the ‘‘votes’’ they leave behind them.

Churchmen and other ded: cated enemies of apartheid visit South Africa in droves in order to gain evidence to denounce it. But I have never heard of similar delegations visiting Romania. What held them back, | wonder? They might have

been able to admire the bulldozing of the ethnic Hungarians’ villages and other manifestations of human rights.

In the minds of Western gliberals and haters of their own race there never was any trans- gressor worse than South Africa, with the possible exception of Nazi Germany. Yet, as I say, the Romanian story has been around for 40 years. Remember the ox-like Anna Pauker? She was one of those who preceded Sir Nick, and things were no different in her time.

I am not being wise after the event. One didn’t have to be clever to know what was happening. One only had to have an interest in it. Thus, even from my obscure seat on the North Shore there was no trick in writing about Roinanian misery. (See my column, Jan. 20, 1988.)

The trick lies in getting anyone to listen, for it is impossible to fight fashion with fact. That's why we believe in free speech for Marx- ists but not for Keegstras and Zundels, and why the Michael Valpys of the Globe and Mail, the Toronto Star, etc. have ‘‘no dif- ficulty’’ with Robert Mugabe of Zimbabwe being a Marxist (as | once heard Valpy say on TV).

It follows that when Comrade Mugabe announced recently the creation of a one-party state, not a ripple was raised in the stream of liberal consciousness. What didn't go unnoticed, though, was the death of Dolores Ibarruri, other- wise known as La Passionara, a commie biggy of the Spanish Civil War. The recent exit to Vathalla of that ancient Stalinist termagant in- spired an editorial in the Van- couver Sun in which she was described as an immortal, believe it or not.

The kind of thought-cancer be- ing discussed here afflicts many bright Western heroes. Pierre Trudeau went to Cuba with his funny wife and kissed Castro (she burbling about how sexy the bearded ‘*Fidel’’ was). Later, Pierre refused to attend an inter- national ploughing match in On- tario that was being defiled by the presence of two white Rhodesians.

Even as the dust settles over Ceausescu’s grave, we are getting ready to celebrate the release from comfortable confinement of Nelson Mandela, the black com- munist terrorist revered by nitwits. Bells will peal all over the West, for sure.

We sold Sir Nick a nuclear power plant.

Can you imagine the explosion there would have been if we had sold one to the South Africans? ©

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