08-22-2006, 12:42 PM
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I think whether the intellectuals were communist-educated or not made all the difference. In revolutionary times, educated people who are not in the revolutionary movement are suspect and subject to extreme measures. Post-revolution there were usually purges of the revolutionaries and power struggles among them. Eventually things would settle down and newly educated Communists were the new elite, unless and until they got out of line.
Cheers,
Jerry
You are correct Jerry, I got out of line, errr out of the country.
Since I was a communist-educated intellectual and the country "invested" a lot into my education, my defection was a crime there and I couldn't go back for 10 years (statue of limitation.) Not that I really cared about it. Aloha,
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