Re: Korean/Japanese/Inupiaq/Aleut/Yupik/Samenoid(sp)

On Mon, 21 Aug 2000, Thomas R. Wier wrote:

> Velikovsky got his start there too IIRC.   It's not that it's all like that:  it's just
> that in Russia under Communism, science was supposed to serve the interests
> of the state. And so, any theory that could not immediately be used for propaganda
> purposes tended to be neglected (or, in extreme cases, persecuted and its proponents
> liquidated).
Actually, that makes sense then. The island of Sakhalin - one of the major
areas of Ainu population - was fought over during the Russo-Japanese war.
I suppose it the Ainu were claimed to be Indo-European, this could be seen
as some "liberation of brothers from the horrible Japanese". Gives the
government more of an excuse for wanting the land.  (The oil deposits had
*nothing* to do with it, I'm sure.)

Marcus