<DIV>Charles is right that it is dishonest to talk about "the USSR" today, although the title of the article is obviously a coy British pun referring to the Beatles song. However, Blacks in the USSR reported a lot of racism and ignorance. There is a nice book I read nearly 20 years ago about a black American woman who was a student at Moscow State in the late 70s, early 80s, not hostile to the USSR, has harraising tales of racism and bigotry quite nakedly expressed, jkjs Charles Brown <cbrown@michiganlegal.org> wrote: <BLOCKQUOTE style="PADDING-LEFT: 5px; MARGIN-LEFT: 5px; BORDER-LEFT: #1010ff 2px solid"> Financial Times (UK) June 14, 2003 Black in the USSR Xenophobia is on the increase in Russia, propelled by groups of violent extremists. Their victims, says Hugh Barnes, range from embassy elite to a few hundred black students, marooned when the collapse of the Soviet system cut off their financial support -clip- ^^^^^^^ CB: How slick that the title of an article in 2003 is "in the USSR". Sort of trying to cheat on the question of whether the widespread racist violence described in the article is a phenomenon of Russia since it became capitalist, precisely one of the changes from the USSR. ___________________________________ http://mailman.lbo-talk.org/mailman/listinfo/lbo-talk</BLOCKQUOTE></DIV><hr SIZE=1> Do you Yahoo!? <a href="http://pa.yahoo.com/*http://rd.yahoo.com/evt=1207/*http://promo.yahoo.com/sbc/">SBC Yahoo! DSL</a> - Now only $29.95 per month!