[lbo-talk] I'm a "committed Leninist"

[Chris Doss]

When I interviewed Kagarlitsky around 1992, I asked him what he 
thought of the breakup of the USSR. He laughed, and said, as a 
Russian he was glad to be no longer subsidizing the other republics. 
He then retreated from his joke, but it sounded like there was a bit 
of truthtelling disguised by the humor.

Doug
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There certainly is a lot of that. There is a variant that contributes to hostile attitudes toward Georgians, Ukrainians, Balts, etc. to the effect that "we fed those ungrateful bastards for decades and then they wanted to secede! Yet now they are here swarming over our cities and lowering wages."

		
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