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@t3@f01 HOW TO ANALYSE COMMENTS

@t5@f00Well,  this  one is mainly written for
english    students   in   non-english
speaking countries, e.g.  Germany.  As
you   maybe   have  realised  from  my
English right now - I am no Englishman
but German and had to do this analysis
for  my english studies in school.  In
about three month I will pass my final
exams  for  Abitur  and  right  now my
grades  are  above  average  (not VERY
good,  but  good) and maybe this could
be a little help for students in lower
grades...   

I   know,   there    are  a   lot   of
language  mistakes left, but I have no
time  nor  mood  to correct all I have
written!!!


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@t6THE EDITORIAL 

@t5"For  the Soviets - aid", published in
The  European,  issue 76 from the 18th
October  1991,  is  dealing  with  the
major  statement  that  economical aid
has  to  be  given  from  the  western
nations   to   the   Soviet  Union  to
stabilize its economy.

The   writer   believes  that  without
economical  aid  the  Soviet  Union is
going  to  "face certain catastrophy."
According   to  him  this  catastrophy
could  look  as  follows:   Economical
problems   could   help   the   former
communist  leader to get back to their
position   of   power   and  therefore
restart the Cold War.  Here the writer
takes  the  failed coup in August as a
warning and  therefore as evidence for
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@t5@f00his   statement.   Moreover,  a  total
breakdown  of  the Soviet economy will
put  the  responsibility for it on the
western  nations, who will have to pay
much larger amounts for rebuilding and
emergency  food  aid  then, as if they
would give stabilizing help now.

The  writer  also  compares the Europe
Marshall  Aid  after  the Second World
War  with  the  situation now, stating
that  only  the  promptness of the aid
then  saved middle Europe from getting
bankrupt.    This   seems   to  be  an
indirect   critisism   on  the  states
taking  part  on  the  IMF  conference
still  waiting yet.  Furthermore irony
is  used  to  mock about and critisize
these  nations,  as can be seen in the
second  paragraph:   " ...  the Soviet
Union  needs  more than pious lectures
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about   the   virtues  of  the  market
economy."
The   language   in   this   editorial
contains  a lot of expressions dealing
with     economics,     for    example
"spiralling    inflation",   "economic
recovery",   ...   .   This  technical
vocabulary  is  maybe used as evidence
for  the  capability to deal with this
topic.     Furthermore    a   lot   of
intensifying  expressions  are used to
stress  the  impression  of a critical
condition  in  the  Soviet  Union  and
therefore the urgency of help.

The  writer stresses the importance of
Mr.   Gorbachevs  role,  he  played to
end  the  cold  war.  This remains the
reader of the fact that people have to
thank  him  for  what  he has done and
therefore convinces the reader that he
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@t5deserves  to  be  helped.   Also,  the
examples    of   Germany   and   Japan
indirectly  influence  the  reader  to
show   solidarity,   because   Germany
helped  immediately, while Japan acted
"unacceptably  self interested." These
examples are directly referring to the
readers    moral   emotions,   because
indirectly it is said that it would be
a  shame,  if  we would refuse to give
aid to our friends in the east.

But also probable solutions are given,
because  only  financial help will not
solve  the   real problems.  According
to  the  writer,  only "transform(ing)
the    rouble   into   a   convertible
currency"  and  "admitting  the Soviet
Union  to  the  full membership of the
membership  which  is its right" would
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@t5cause real improvements.

All  in all, the editorial seems to be
written   for   a   rather  uncritical
reader,  because  of the use of mainly
simple   and   compound  sentences  of
average length.  The reader is also in
no   need   of   a   wider  background
knowledge  about  the topic, because a
lot of it is given in the editorial.


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