tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7858950.post680328646235765933..comments2023-05-31T14:16:36.022+03:00Comments on Otto's Random Thoughts: More Links Between Soviet and South African ApartheidJ. Otto Pohlhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07457089758142264049noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7858950.post-13803532095270862852015-01-18T06:20:16.061+03:002015-01-18T06:20:16.061+03:00OK.OK.Withywindlehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11465319711207992232noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7858950.post-79733393381443154102015-01-15T21:32:56.783+03:002015-01-15T21:32:56.783+03:00I actually didn't say that the Soviets influen...I actually didn't say that the Soviets influenced South African apartheid anywhere in the post. What I wrote is that there is a link between the Soviet Union's decree of 3 November 1972 and their cosponsorship the following year of the Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Apartheid. <br /><br />BTW: That thesis isn't original with Mazower. Hannah Arendt wrote about it in 1951 in The Origins of Totalitarianism. J. Otto Pohlhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07457089758142264049noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7858950.post-40423234787699613992015-01-15T21:15:04.204+03:002015-01-15T21:15:04.204+03:00Given that apartheid has institutional links going...Given that apartheid has institutional links going back at least to the nineteenth century, and maybe to the seventeenth, depending how you look at it, I would be cautious about arguing Soviet influence, as opposed to parallel evolution. Indeed, there is the Mazower Dark Continent thesis (as I recollect it) that the twentieth century saw Europeans apply to Europe techniques experimented with elsewhere on non-Europeans. I suspect you might find more influence from nineteenth-century imperialist labor policies in Africa (et al) on Soviet policy than vice versa.Withywindlehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11465319711207992232noreply@blogger.com