--- Adam Souzis <adamsz at gmail.com> wrote:
thanks for translating that, it was quite interesting.
>From a distance
the PDS' move toward reactionary, racist nationalism
seems part and
parcel with other ex-Communists parties across former
eastern bloc and
Soviet states.
---
Strictly speaking race and racism (as opposed to chauvinism or ethnic animosity) are close to being meaningless concepts in most of the former Soviet states. It's like talking about racism in ancient Rome. Race is a European/North American meme. Anyway, since the CPs' electorate is the disenfranchised, and since the disenfranchised tend to be chauvinistic, it is hardly surprising.
FWIW until very recently Dagestan, which is 90% non-Russian and 90% Muslim, was staunchly pro-Communist.
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