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Human will can move mountains
By Mic hael C olson
The tempest of change in
Kastcrn Kurope is .1 Iasi mating
example of the exert ise of tlicit
enigmatic thing < ailed the hu
man w ill
When the i ollet live human
will is mobilized, things hap
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pen Consider Czechoslovakia
The communist government in
that nation could deal w ith a
few. or a few hundred dissi
dents, and did so harshly
and cffit lent lx throughout
the 1970s and '80s
But this year, when the na
tional will was energized and
millions of people turned out
in the streets to demand de
mocr.K v. the Communist party,
which hud ruled with an iron
list for two generations quit kIx
lost its grip
Not a shot was tired Once
the Czech national xx i 11 was
mobilized against it the fate of
the ruling i hiss (the (iniiniu
mst party) was sealed Nothing
perhaps short of .1 Soviet nut le
ar strike against Czet hoslova
kia. could have frustrated the
will of several million angry,
animated people who were .ill
thinking hasti ally (he same
thought
U ill the failure of it
yy as also in evident e on the
other side and it yyas amazing
When Soviet leader Mikhail
( ,orh,11 hoy made it 1 le.it that
the Russians would not inter
yene to prop up hast Kurnpeau
communist regimes, the ruling
i lass throughout the region sut
teri'd a nearly simultaneous
|iiss of yy il I and the yy hole
slimy 1 ollupsed t he dominoes
tell Roland 1 lung.uy feast (let
many Czet hoslovakla. Bulgur
ia.
rhe 1 omniums! parties slid
denly (let idl'd they yyerell t all
that interested in survival, and
they lapsed into a < oma
I'he human yy ill uyxukened
or subdued < an alter 1 ir iliza
lion and the course of history
in profound yy ay s
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(Consider the i .im1 of I ram i*
.11 Ihi' outset of World War II
Hie french had wlnit was he
lievetl to he the most powerful
a rim in furope II the I'reru h
the government the I ien« h
armed tori es and the I’rent h
people had possessed the
v\ 111 to fight. thev still might
not have sululued the Nazis
hut thev could have made the
Hermans pav dearlv in hlnod
and treasure for every inc h ol
I-rent h soil the Nazis i aptured
Instead, in one ol the moiui
mental failures ol human will
in this (enturv. the N.i/is
howled down I ram e in six
weeks, subjugating a mights
world power without re.dls
even working up .1 sweat
(Contrast this with the ex peri
em es of the |esss of the Warsaw
ghetto in 104 t A less thousand
armed lews, possessed ol a fe
rocious ssill to survive and re
sist the Nazis held theii own
against a mechanized Herman
arms lor nearly as long as the
entire I rein ll nation I he lews
battled t.iuks with Molotov
1 oi ktails. and !a< ed dow 11 ma
1 hine guns w ith pistols
As for till' I rein h some 1 ai
ried on the light from exile
and others went to light 111 the
Resistance, hut the great mass
of the I rein ll people and 1 el
t.uulv .1 dei re pit I i fin h leader
ship, xiniplv lost the will to re
sis| fhev thus became soil tar
gels for the Nazis who .it that
stage 111 the wai possessed a
virulent overpowering will t<>
pres .ill wIni h was ililtu ult tin
anv nation to resist
I hesitate to i omp.ue tin'
Ameru .111 experience in \ let
ii.ini with that ol the Russians
in Afghanistan e\i ept to mis
that hotli demonstrated the del
eterioils eflet ts of a tailure ot
the ss ill on the part ol the su
perpow ers
I'he Viet ( ong and the North
Vietnamese arms were no
mate h for the overpowering
might of the American super
power 'll'! the Vietnamese
prevailed, as thes had earlier
against another great power
the I re in h
Surels the I leu e pi dent Red
Arms could have smashed the
ragtag mountain guerrilas ot
Afghanistan, set the Soviet
people and the Soviet govern
ment lai ked the ssill to prevail
I lie Mujaheddin didn I
A failure ot vs ill is not a ds s
film I ion ot Intel lei I i mirage m
nerve It is something deeper
something spiritual and iiillei
live that animates and iirrei
gi/.es these other human traits
A people possessed ot a i ol
lei live will to prevail .ire i a pa
hie ot mi redlhle ai ts ol i out
age i milling and brasers \s
had been ilemonstraletl in Iso
mania the energl/ed will ol a
people i an be resisted bs tori e
but it i a ii not be east Is I rrnken
Stii lhirl (.'of.sum is a [inlitii a/
si nili r lll.l/ur
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