Re: [Marxism] From a speech at Baku

["Nestor Gorojovsky" <nestorgoro@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

It would also be noteworthy that one of the first, if not _the_ 
first, victim of bureaucratic chauvinism was Sultan Galiev, the main 
Central Asian delegate to the Baku conference.

Respuesta a: [Marxism] From a speech at Baku
Remitido por: Louis Proyect
Fecha: Martes 28 de Septiembre de 2004 
Hora: 10:23
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>  From Narbutabekov's speech to the Baku conference:
> 
> The theoretical position of the Soviet power in relation to the East
> was set out with the greatest clarity in the appeal to all the toiling
> Moslems of Russia and the East. The Council of People?s Commissars
> issued in November 1917, over Comrade Lenin?s signature, a special
> appeal to all the toiling Moslems of Russia and the Easy. In this
> historic appeal, besides the statement that the treaty which provided
> for partitioning Turkey and taking Armenia away from her had been torn
> up and annulled, and that Constantinople must remain in the hands of
> the Moslems, the following appeared: ?Henceforward your beliefs and
> customs, your national and cultural institutions are declared free and
> inviolable. Build your national life freely and without hindrance. It
> is your right. You yourselves must be masters in your own country. You
> yourselves must build your lives in your image and likeness.'
> 
> After these words, is it conceivable that we should turn our backs on
> the Soviet power?
> 
> But now, as we travel about, Moslems come up to us and say that our
> beliefs are being trampled on, that we are not allowed to pray, not
> allowed to bury our dead in accordance with our customs and religion.
> What is this? It is nothing but a sowing of counter-revolution among
> the toiling masses.
> 
> It may be that the same thing is happening in other places too, but I
> declare, in the name of the non-Party delegates, and perhaps the
> Communists also will join in this, that with the remarkable congress
> we are holding today our Soviet power should introduce a definite
> policy in relation to the East. Then the Eastern peoples will rally to
> the Soviet power not only on paper but in arms, and then no power in
> the world will be able to resist the pressure of the many-millioned
> masses of the peoples of the East, together with the proletariat and
> peasantry of Russia.
> 
> Long live the oppressed East!
> 
> Long live those real Communists who, without reservation, want to put
> these principles into practice!
> 
> Long five our leaders, the leaders of the world proletariat ? Comrades
> Lenin, Trotsky, Zinoviev and the others.
> 
> [Tadzhayev translates into Turkic and other interpreters translate
> into Turkish, Persian and Chechen.]
> 
> full:
> http://www.marxists.org/history/international/comintern/baku/ch03.htm
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Néstor Miguel Gorojovsky
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