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The Caucasian imbroglio. (nationalism in Soviet Union )

From: National Review  |  Date: 4/29/1988  |  Author: Kuehnelt-Leddihn, Erik von

THE CAUCASIAN IMBROGLIO

Recent nationalist uprisings in the Azerbaijan and Armenian Soviet "republics" have focused increasing attention on Caucasia, a region of the southern Soviet Union bounded by the Black and Caspian Seas and covered by the Caucasus mountains. The name, if not the place itself, is familiar through the phrase used routinely when I was a boy, though less often now, the "Caucasian race." There is not the slightest reason to believe that the Indo-Europeans came ...

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