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there, you can’ t get but so big. So there are good and
tivities. “ Can you just picture this shown on American
bad points on both sides.”
TV?” he says. “ I think it ’ ll help make a better relation
A li says he plans to devote m ajor time and e ffort to
ship, showing the Russians are just like everybody else.
W O RLD — W orld Organization fo r the Right to Live
Now, I ’ m getting American films into Russian schools,
in Dignity. One o f W O R LD ’ S aims is promoting people-
letting the Russians see that we don’ t want war. We’ re
to-people understanding in the interests o f peace. He
funny people to them, too. Let them see how America
already has permission to film a documentary o f Soviet
is, how we picnic, how we play ball, go to the horse
people in all walks o f life, going about their daily ac-
races.”
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Muhammad Ali reviews World Review art'cle on his
recent USSR trip.
The trip to the USSR
“ The Russians don't want war, just like we don’ t
want war, but the two sides are afraid o f each other
because they don’ t know each other and anything you
don’ t know about, you’ re scared o f,” says Muhammad
A li in an exclusive interview with the magazine New
World Review. “ From what I understand, propaganda
keeps the cold war going, keeps people against each
other. I f you could talk to a Russian man, a Russian
woman, they’ re going to work every day, they love their
children, they like to shine their cars. They’ re human
beings just like all o f us and they’ re not people just
looking to make war and to take over the w orld.”
A li tells o f his meeting with Soviet President Leonid
Brezhnev, shares his observations on the situation o f the
Soviet U nion’ s racial and national minorities as well as
its religious groups, tells what he likes about the Soviet
life-style and why he prefers living in the United States.
A li says he saw a hundred nationalities living together
in harmony. “ No such thing as a white man or a Black
man.” He tells o f jogging past two women on a Moscow
street. “ They didn’ t even look back to see why a Black
man was out here running. 1 can't go jogging in the
morning in some streets in a white neighborhood in
America. I f they see a Black man coming, they wonder
who I ’ m going to ju m p .” Nobody in the Soviet Union
was worried about being robbed or mugged, he ob
serves, and people walk or sit in the park late at night
without fear.
His meeting with Soviet President Brezhnev was one
o f the greatest honors o f his life, says A li, “ A ll he
talked about was peace and better relations. He doesn’ t
want his country to fight. It would be a nuclear war and
nobody would win. He wants peace and he hoped my
stay there could help bring more peace.”
“ One thing that surprised me,” A li observes. “ I saw
nothing American. I ’ ve been all over the world. It
seemed like America dominated the w orld, or had
something everywhere. T o see another country that
could still go to the moon, make weapons, feed people,
build hospitals, make cars, buses, cameras, televisions
— that really impressed me because I didn’ t think a
country could exist without America.”
Before he went to the Soviet Union, A li says, he
thought people there were not free to worship. “ I went
to three different mosques to w orkshop." He points out
that people are not allowed to promote or push a faith,
but anyone wishing to attend services at a mosque,
synagogue or church is completely free to do so.
“ The Russian people share what they have,” he says.
“ They’ re all together. No big shots, no loan sharks.
Everybody’ s got a job. That’ s more like the Christian
teaching. Over here where you preach God, we have
rich, rich, rich people and the poor, poor, p o o r.”
Nonetheless, he says, he prefers to live in the US: “ I f
you’ ve got a chance, you can prove you’ ve got it. Over
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