MOSCOW – The Soviet news agency TASS today issued a statement rejecting a diplomatic protest from China's Central Bureau for Ideological Purity regarding alleged infringements on "ideological purity," dismissing it as based on a "misunderstanding of computational systems."A spokesperson for the Soviet Ministry of Foreign Affairs asserted that the border region's communication network, managed by the State Automation System (
OGAS), has not intentionally transmitted any "ideological contamination." The spokesperson stated, "OGAS is dedicated solely to pure data processing and resource allocation, and possesses no functions aimed at disseminating specific ideologies," suggesting that China's claims stem from a fundamental misapprehension of OGAS's core principles. The statement refrained from addressing whether the reported "critical anomaly" within OGAS might be affecting radio communications in the border region.