[lbo-talk] Testy

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Following Stalin's view of the National Question, they
gave the nationalities a lot of authority in their own
republics. In the Muslim republics they liberated
women and gave them real authority by treating them
equally or better, winning the support of half the
population. The other half (the men) they kept quiet
by providing minimal but actual work and marginally
adequate cradle-to-grave services. Finally, they ran a
fairly efficient police state, rarely losing control
enough to let things escalate to guerilla warfre.
Postwar Ukraine was an exception, btw -- the Soviets
foult till like 1952 or 53 to suppress the (CIA
financed) Unkrainina seperatists. 

jks

--- Doug Henwood <dhenwood at panix.com> wrote:


> Chris Doss wrote:
> 
> >I think people don't understand how complicated
> that
> >part of the world is. You have 40 or so ethnic
> groups
> >all living in close proximity to each other with a
> >long history of doing each other in.
> 
> So how'd the USSR keep things peaceful?
> 
> Doug
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