Today the first productive thing I did was drop of laundry at the laundromat. Then I made it to the office to fill out more endless letters of recommendation. I still have students who graduated in 2011 and took the first class I ever taught here coming to ask for reference letters. It seems most of my former students want to become lawyers although given the complete lack of enforcement of law here I am not sure how that will work.
Most of the day I spent working on a book chapter on the Soviet mass campaigns of arrest and expulsion of ethnic Chinese from the Soviet Far East during 1936-1938. I didn't get lunch until after three in the afternoon as a result. I had a chicken shawarma. Like all other food here it was Africanized meaning made spicy.
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Were all of these multiple mass deportations just Stalin's idea in WW2 or is this all indicative of Russian racism beginning in WW1 against non-Russians supporting Stalin's wishes?
Seems like your research topic in history is about survival?
Altogether about 8,000 were expelled to western China a smaller number were deported to Kazakhstan. The deportations have roots in Russian racism going back to at least the 19th century.
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