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On 5/4/14 6:06 PM, Stiofan OBuadhaigh wrote:
Lou, given that you believe the Russian speaking regions of Ukraine
were created by a policy of colonization and that those populations
in Ukraine that speak Russian are "settlers," when did this policy of
social engineering take place? Given the mix of peoples and cultures
in Eastern Europe, I am having a difficult time seeing the
populations of SE Ukraine as analagous to the French in Algeria, the
Scots-Irish in Ulster, or the Boers of South Africa.
I actually disagree with the Links commenter's characterization of the
Donetsk pro-Russian segment of the population as anything like Pied
Noirs or the Ulster Protestants.
But the analogy with Ireland holds on all other grounds. Here's Lenin:
What are you, Kerensky, Tsereteli, Chernov, Skobelev, if not “tamed
socialists”? Did you raise the question of the Russian Ireland and the
Russian Algeria, i.e., of Turkestan, Armenia, Ukraine, Finland, etc.,
before the government of the “Russian bourgeoisie now in power”? When
did you raise this question? Why don’t you tell the Russian “people”
about it? Why don’t you qualify as “sleight of hand” the Russian
Narodniks’ and Mensheviks’ blather about “peace without annexations” in
the Soviet, in the government and before the people, without raising,
clearly and unambiguously, the question of all Russian annexations of
the same type as Ireland and Algeria?
http://www.marxists.org/archive/lenin/works/1917/jun/01b.htm
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