Chris Doss wrote:
>Ironically, if by "advanced segments of the peasantry"
>one means "best educated" or "most literate," that was
>the Cossacks, whom the Bolsheviks brutally repressed
>for a couple of years and were never too comfortable with.
>
Wasn't that because the Cossacks were the tzarist's special forces?
Joanna
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