Re: USAGE: Translation of Russian _inorodtsy_

Quoting Pavel Iosad <edricson@...>:

> > Place of shame, however, goes to that Japanese group, the
> > name of which escapes me, which uses as symbol a yellow
> > swastika on a blue background because, you guessed it, those
> > are the Swedish colours. One of the better arguments for
> > criminalizing idiocy around.
>
> Umm, I seem to miss the connection - according to them, are the Japanese
> true Swedes or is it vice versa?
It's been a while since I read of them, but they apparently see Swedes as the
archetypical 'Aryans', so being associated with us is probably a Good Thing.
Can't recall how they fitted themselves into Nazist racial hierarchies.

(How do Russian neo-Nazis go about that, btw? Would seem to be a major problem
with Slavs being _Untermenschen_ and all that.)

> > The Central Asians apparently
> > were denied Russian citizenship - I'm not sure what effects
> > that had in practice.
>
> Why, they didn't vote, of course! (But then, neither did anyone else,
> excepting the dvoryane choosing the local _predvoditel' dvoryanstva_ -
> the 'nobility leader' of a given uyezd). Probably something to do with
> (lack of right to) possession of serfs and/or land. Also perhaps no
> passports --> no trips abroad?
Well, most of Central Asia was only conquered post-emanicipation, so serf-
ownership can't have been an issue.

                                                    Andreas

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