Re: Soviet balance sheet

[michael <michael@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

I confess that I see the putting off of a Chechnia or a Bosnia as a positive
phenomenon.

R. Anders Schneiderman wrote:

> At 08:35 AM 3/28/98 -0800, Michael wrote:
> >Also in the Balance Sheet, we might include Stalin's brutal, but
> >relatively effective policy of suppressing/repressing ethnic hostilities.
>
> I don't see how you'd put that in anything other than the minus column.
> First off, it's hard to see how slaughtering or interning people is a plus.
>  Second, this strategy was ultimately a failure:  once the repression
> stopped, the old ethnic tensions flared right back up again.
>
> Anders Schneiderman



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