[lbo-talk] Testy

andie nachgeborenen andie_nachgeborenen at yahoo.com
Mon Sep 6 08:39:19 PDT 2004


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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