--- [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: What our dear "brother" has written is that Great Russian chauvinism consolidated itself with Stalin and basically that Lenin himself was not a manifestation of history development that confirms the status of the oppressing people . . . domination and chauvinism. Lenin was not a chauvinist . . . and neither was Stalin or Khrushchev and Brezhnev . . . for that matter. ---
Actually the Soviet Union had affirmative action programs for minorities. That's why the elite in Bashkortostan are mostly Bashkirs, even though Bashkirs are a minority there (third-largest population in the republic after Russians and Tatars). __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? New and Improved Yahoo! Mail - Send 10MB messages! http://promotions.yahoo.com/new_mail
