We can criticize all we like. but if these criticisms and suggestions go unheeded over time. many will begin to question the utility and efficacy of the entire process. To be sure. there have been intermittent improvements in certain East European countries. usually on the eve of an important CSCE forum. but overall the record of implementation. particularly in the human rights area. has not been good. Emigration from the Soviet Union has slowed to a trickle. dissent has been brutally suppressed and the hopes of millions in Eastern Europe. awakened in 1975 by the promise of the Helsinki Final Act. have been disappointed. The dismal record of the Soviet Union has not been confined to the human rights area. The invasion and occupation of Afghanistan marked a violation of the very heart of the Final Acts basic principles that signatory states should refrain from the threat or use of force and respect one anothers national sovereignty and territorial integrity.
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