If indeed 90% of Chechens are against the separatists/terrorists/murderers, why is Chechnya in the shape -- or as out of shape as -- it is? Is the place so sui generis that it bears no comparison to N Ireland, or the Basque, or even Palestine?
kj khoo
At 8:39 am -0700 6/9/04, andie nachgeborenen wrote:
>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.
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>jks
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>--- 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