Forum_ 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 _Commentary_ 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 >« 1 1 1 1 - v We Buy Quality • Stereo equipment • Video recorders • PA amps & mixers • Portable color tv's "/ust 2 blocks Irom rumpus Stereo Workshop 1621 E. 19th 344 3212 M E 9 6. Sat 10 2 V__/ (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 _Commentary Policy The Oregon Daily Emerald welcomes commentaries from the public concerning topics of interest to the University community. 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