Re: Putin

[Louis Proyect <lnp3@xxxxxxxxx>]

Chris Doss wrote:
>  From what I have been able to find, the Bolsheviks did not consider
> Chechnyans as a national minority
> with a right of succession. 

(clip)

> Stalin knew that for ages weapons considered the symbol of 
> freedom, honour and dignity of Chechens and Ingushs and people would not 
> voluntarily surrenders arms. But he decided to ignore this for the sake 
> of strengthening the dictatorship of proletariat .

V.I. Lenin:
"Stalin is too rude and this defect, although quite tolerable in our 
midst and in dealings among us Communists, becomes intolerable in a 
general secretary. That is why I suggest that the comrades think about a 
way of removing Stalin from that post and appointing another man in his 
stead who in all other respects differs from Comrade Stalin in having 
only one advantage, namely, that of being more tolerant, more loyal, 
less capricious, etc." (December 1922)

Other letters written by Lenin:

--Opposing Great Russian chauvinism of Stalin in relation to his 
proposal for “union” of the independent republics in the Russian 
Federation. [December 1922]

--Opposing Stalin’s “persecution” of the “Georgian case”. [March 5-6 1923]

http://home.mira.net/~andy/bs/1922vil.htm


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