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An archived article by J. Volker on the jewish diaspora.

www.naenara.com.kp/main/index/en/first

In this matter (the expansion of Soviet borders) we admittedly went a bit too far, but something has been brewing in the south. You have to understand that there are limits to everything, otherwise you can choke.

The problem of the Baltic states, western Ukraine, western Belorussia, and Bessarabia we solved with Ribbentrop in 1939. The Germans reluctantly agreed to our annexation of Latvia, Estonia, and Bessarabia. A year later when I was in Berlin, in November 1940, Hitler asked me, “Well, good, you are uniting the Ukrainians, uniting the Belorussians, all right, and the Moldavians, that’s reasonable—but how are you going to explain the Baltic states to the whole world?”

I said to him, “We’ll explain.”

Communists and the people of the Baltic states favored joining the Soviet Union. Their bourgeois leaders came to Moscow for negotiations but refused to sign such an agreement with the USSR. What were we to do? I must tell you confidentially that I pursued a very hard line. I told the Latvian minister of foreign affairs when he came to visit us, “You won’t go home until you sign the agreement to join us.”

A popular minister of war from Estonia came to see us—I’ve forgotten his name. We told him the same thing. We had to go to such extremes. And to my mind, we achieved our aims quite satisfactorily.

This sounds crude in the telling, but in fact everything was done more delicately.

But the first one could have warned the others.

There was no escape for them. A country somehow has to see to its security. When we laid down our demands—you have to act before it’s too late—they vacillated. Of course bourgeois governments could not join a socialist state with alacrity. But the international situation was forcing their decision. They found themselves between two great powers—fascist Germany and Soviet Russia. The situation was complicated. That’s why they wavered, but finally they made up their minds. And we needed the Baltic states....

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-Molotov Remembers, Inside Kremlin Politics, 1993.

https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/08969205221137765

Interesting, this seems to be from a Trotskyite author (and actual Trotskyite, not one who uses a Trotskyist clothe to justify Imperialism, liberalism and smear campaigns against "Stalinism", but he does the common mistakes of Trotskyites regarding Fascism where he is into "Muh Trump" and "muh rainbows") but still viable answer to the eclectic David Harvey.

It seems our analysis from 2 weeks ago holds complete truth in it :

As we did for the Malian and Burkinabè revolutions, we look very favorably on the recent Revolution in Niger, which will probably allow the establishment of a national-bourgeois anti-imperialist government. This is proven by the demonstrations supporting the coup, chanting “Down with France, long live Russia”.

The reaction from French, American and UN imperialists, all supporting the deposed comprador bourgeois president, also demonstrate intense fear on the part of the parasitic West, afraid that the last oil and uranium colony of the Sahel will now be free of its movements.

We can wonder why Russia has a half-hearted reaction, but we must distinguish between the politics of the right-wing faction of the national bourgeoisie represented by Shoigu, and that of the left-wing faction represented by Prigozhin, having supported the Nigerien movement as than liberation of the colonized.

Above all, it demonstrates that it is not “false conscience” that leads people to reject anti-colonialism, but class interests, explaining why the technically more educated French workers are always supporters of a social-fascist methods, while Nigeriens want a real national doctrine (their links with Russia probably explained by the brotherhood once professed by the Soviet Union towards the peoples of the Third World). Perhaps an imperialist nation, an old leader of the Euro Zone and of the CFA Franc has different interests from a colony that is part of Françafrique?

May this revolt be part of a broad worldwide revolutionary movement!

Let’s hope national and proletarian interests of Nigerians will still be protected from ECOWAS’ hands!

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