On Fri, Aug 3, 2012 at 10:42 AM, Julio Huato <[email protected]> wrote: > Jim quoted Wikipedia: > >> Finally and most importantly, Russia appears on it instead of >> Soviet Union. This is a matter that would have been hard for Stalin to >> endorse since the Soviets were very sensitive in keeping appearances. > > Hmm. > > Djilas and at least another (recent) author (Dmitri Volkogonov? my > memory with things I read in the last few years is much worse than > with things I read ages ago!) have said that Stalin often referred to > Russia as -- let me put it this way -- the agent; as opposed to the > Soviet Union. Apparently, this became more common after WW2. No? > > Thanks for the Wiki search!
You're welcome. I think that the mix-up between "Russia" and the "Soviet Union" is pretty unimportant in a secret and informal agreement. I'd guess that the confusion came from Churchill. And of course, Russia was the hegemonic republic in the USSR. Nowadays, that confusion persists: I'm told that some of Willard Romney's foreign-policy advisers refer to Russia as the "Soviet Union." That is bizarre. -- Jim Devine / If you're going to support the lesser of two evils, you should at least know the nature of that evil. _______________________________________________ pen-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.csuchico.edu/mailman/listinfo/pen-l
