They have no affiliation with the leftists. They value human rights above social experiments in other lands. They watch events in the Soviet Union with guarded optimism and regard its leaders with caution. They judge the situation with reference to traditional liberal ideas and most certainly see a considerable difference. Traditional liberals are for aid to the USSR but they are stumped on seeing the gluttony of Soviet bureacracy, disarray in Soviet society, the uncertainty of the Republic's position.
Traditional liberals are sometimes amazed at Soviet endurance.
They appreciate our fear of a new mode of socialism - that's part of their system of values. For many years tolerant conservatives argued with liberals of the 60s about the USSR's history and future. Today tolerant democrats in the USSR behave in almost the same way tolerant conservatives predicted. This gives them great moral satisfaction. They criticize most of the Soviet leaders and mainly for good reasons.