Eight years later we can be more realistic about what Helsinki promised and what it has delivered. Eight years is perhaps too short a time to expect basic changes in how a government treats its own people and how it relates to its neighboring states. Old cultural patterns cannot be changed in such a short time. In the Soviet Union and many of the countries in Eastern Europe the promises of the Helsinki accords are still unfulfilled. Emigration has been reduced to a trickle. Religious and ethnic groups are still persecuted by acts of governmental policy. Basic human rights are consistently violated.
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