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The Multinationalization of Soviet Dissent

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  20 November 2018

David Kowalewski
David Kowalewski*
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Siena College
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If one may judge by Soviet political humor on Radio Armenia, the so-called “socialist internationalism” among the many nationalities in the USSR has reflected less than a perfect “friendship of peoples” in the past: Question: What is the “friendship of peoples”? Radio Armenia: It's when an Armenian takes the hand of an Uzbek, an Uzbek that of a Latvian, a Latvian that of a Russian, a Russian that of a Kazakh, a Kazakh that of a Ukrainian, and then they all go and beat up a Georgian.

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Nationalities Papers , Volume 11 , Issue 2 , Fall 1983 , pp. 206 - 230
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Copyright © 1983 Association for the Study of Nationalities 

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