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‘In 1999, I was interrogated on suspicion of being an Irish Republican Army terrorist…’

April 10, 2013 By Kathy Shaidle

Sailer:

…the KGB promoted a “nuclear freeze” (a once vast political movement so forgotten today that it doesn’t even have its own Wikipedia page) to persuade voters in the West to instead acquiesce in intermediate-range missile inferiority and thus set in motion the consequent Finlandization.

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Since I was there, and we could get out thousands of Torontonians on a Saturday afternoon (as long as the weather was good, mind) merely by poster-ing the lightposts throughout the Spadina-Queen-Yonge-Bloor corridor, here’s what the “nuclear freeze movement” looked like in 1980s:

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While the topic does merit a subsection, do note Sailer’s “Wikipedia” jibe well, young folks.

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