Thread: Palin: Man and Dinosaur Existed at Same Time

Originally Posted by gismo

Yea and they were and many still are fucking crapholes, poorest places in Europe with thousands each year trying to come to the UK to have a decent crack at life because their countries are too shit to let them.

Well yeah, that's because the USSR treated most Republics as colonies post-50's. This was also when socialism in the USSR ended. COINCIDENCE?

As opposed to, say, the 1920's and 30's, where great progress was made. (The Turkmen didn't exist as a unified nation before, but the Soviets made it so and got them out of nomadic living, and even had a variant of Communism known as 'National Communism' for a while in those areas which unsuccessfully tried to merge Islam, nationalism and socialism)

http://www.oneparty.co.uk/html/book/ussrchap24-26.html (look at chapter 26 on that page)

"Soviet authorities have reinstated Georgian as the official language of Soviet Georgia after demonstrations there last week over a proposed new constitution which had eliminated the language as the republic's official tongue.

The demonstrations occurred on Friday in the Georgian capital of Tbilisi, when several hundred university students apparently marched from the campus about a mile through the city centre to the steps of the Government's buildings where the Georgian Supreme Soviet was meeting to adopt the new constitution...

Georgians, who comprise most of the population, apparently interpreted this change to mean further 'russification' of their republic".

("Moscow Bows to Georgians in State Language Row", in: "The Guardian", April 19th., 1978; p. 7).

Yeah, great way to promote internationalism.

Also if you're talking about Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, the Ukraine, Georgia, Armenia, Russia and Moldova then you're an idiot because these were the most favorited areas when it came to industrialization and aren't shitty compared to the Central Asian Republics.