J. Slavyanski on a Few Things

J. Slavyanski is a US Marxist-Leninist currently residing in Moscow. His new blog is Red Banner; his former one is Eastern Star. I'm sure that I qualify as a revisionist in his book, as a member of the CPUSA, Cuba, Vietnam, Laos and even Daniel Ortega. The CPUSA is even a supporter of the CCP's (Chinese government) economic model last time I checked.

Anyway, he had some interesting comments on the issue of sex trafficking and whether or not the former Eastern Bloc and USSR were "pro-White", as some White Nationalists are starting to say:

First off, thank you for informing people about women-trafficking. It is indeed a pet issue for me, and sometimes people wonder why. It is very simple- because nobody likes to talk about it. I remember reading a BBC report about Kosovo shortly before they gained independence. Seeing that the ruling regime in Kosovo is a total sycophant to the EU and US, it writes in glowing terms about the night clubs, the hip youth culture, etc.

Not a word about that fact that this place is known to be a haven of organized crime, a stronghold of women trafficking and prostitution, and that many KFOR, UN, and other international personnel in Kosovo have been regular clients of the prostitution sex-slavery business down there.

This issue is simply ignored- and it is the biggest elephant in the living room of this 20th century. Slavery has returned to Europe, and nobody wants to talk about it, be they liberal Western EU types or hardcore Russian or Ukrainian nationalists. Even many Communists parties rarely mention it, something I am trying to change.

Next I have to respond to this drivel spouted by the White Nationalist here. Marxism in Eastern Europe was not "pro-white". This very identity is idiocy. Nobody gives a damn that you are "white" in Europe. It didn't save the Irish, and it does no good to Eastern Europeans today.

Marxism-Leninism holds that workers have more in common in all practical sense with workers of other countries, than capitalists of their own nations.

As such, we have a collective interest to help one another. Nations working together in the interest of their working class, the majority, have the motivation to solve their differences and problems through peaceful, constructive means, rather than through domination and exploitation.

The Soviet Union, through most of its existence, consisted of 15 republics, three of those Baltic, three Slavic and the remainder were mostly populated by Turkic peoples from Central Asia. In addition, the Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic included Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republics such as Tatarstan (Tatars are a mixed, Turkic-speaking people) and Buryatia (Buryats are a Mongoloid people).

Many of the Central Asian nations were actually created where no such nations existed before. The Soviet government gave resources to develop infrastructure, industry, and institutions of culture and education in these nations, in some cases creating written languages for some people and printing publications in those languages.

Thus the Soviet Union was a true multicultural nation. Every republic preserved elements of its national identity, and these cultures were celebrated. There were no "race" laws of any sort, and people were free to move to other republics, though they seldom did since they had no pressing reason to do so. In fact, industrialization saw many Slavs moving into places like Central Asia or the Caucasus.

Today, the infrastructure of many of these nations is nonexistent, sold off or stolen away by a handful of Russian businessmen. Whereas someone from Tashkent might have become an engineer easily in Soviet times, now their children face prostitution or slave labor in Moscow or other countries. How lovely this "freedom" and "independence" they now have.

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