[lbo-talk] Roma history

[RicardoStarkey at aol.com]

"Incidentally, do you know anything at all about, or have ever heard  of, 
Chuvash, Kalmyks, Buryats, Cossacks, Tyvans, or Bashkirs? If the answer is  
"no," you have no business talking about politics in the former USSR."   
Chris Doss

 

 
I've heard of the Chuvash.  I  once read a book which stated that Vladimir 
Lenin's father was Chuvash, and that  his mother was ethnically German, so 
that, actually, old Vlad wasn't Russian at  all.  Anyone know how accurate 
that is?

 
Oh yeah.  And during that  late 70s/early 80s, I was a subscriber to 
_Soviet Life_, so I'm pretty sure I've  read about all of the above ethnic groups.

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