Of course another irony is that due to Soviet rule many of the nationalities of the "prison of nations" were literate urban peoples after the USSR collapsed when the Russian Empire of 1917 was mostly a great mass of peasantry ruled by all-powerful landlords.
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Re: That is.......not the best comparison:
Date: 28/9/10 18:11 (UTC)