[lbo-talk] "A Standard Trotskyist Line" on Islam

[Chris Doss]

This article has some serious misleading points.
First, the Chechen alliance with the Bolsheviks lasted
only a couple of years, at which point it turned into
an open revolt _against_ the Bolsheviks. The entire
Chechen population was disarmed in 1925. Second, the
Cossack "colonists" in the Caucasus (who were
ethnically cleansed and murdered by the Bolsheviks,
something this article describes euphemistically) had
been living there for hundreds of years, as you can
see given the presence of Cossacks as protagonists in
a number of Chechen epic poems and the amount of
intermarriage between them (for that matter Shamil
Basaev's second wife is a Cossack). They were the
descendents of escaped serfs and persecuted religious
refugees.

Not that I expect Trots to know much. ;)

 
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