Re: [MLL] Unsung Heroes: The Soviet Military and the Liberation of Southern Africa

2007-09-10 Thread Rolf Martens
So, those Soviet traitorous revisionists and social-imperialists, Khrushchov, Brezhnev and their ilk, who not least slandered and totally denigrated Stalin and the earlier socialism in the Soviet Union, those people were the ones who liberated South Africa[!], this quoted article says. I think

Re: [MLL] Unsung Heroes: The Soviet Military and the Liberation of Southern Africa

2007-09-10 Thread editor_revdem
The article contains material which is not generally available. Even today there are strong ties between Russian communists and the ANC and the CP of South Africa. Incidentally the article does not claim that the Soviet Union liberated South Africa. My opinion is that the members of the list

Re: [MLL] Unsung Heroes: The Soviet Military and the Liberation of Southern Africa

2007-09-10 Thread Rolf Martens
By Russian communists here, could you perhaps be meaning people from that former party of Khrushchov and Brezhnev? It seems you are. But that surely must be a case of mistaken identity, since there could hardly be, I think, a single actual communist left in that party which was taken completely

[MLL] Unsung Heroes: The Soviet Military and the Liberation of Southern Africa

2007-09-09 Thread editor_revdem
From http://groups.yahoo.com/group/afro-asiareport: Unsung Heroes: The Soviet Military and the Liberation of Southern Africa Author: Vladimir Shubin Deputy Director of the Institute for African Studies, Russian Academy of Sciences, and Professor of History and Politics at the Russian State