Talk:Rudolf Abel

Latest comment: 6 years ago by Luke in topic Redundant digression?
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Redundant digression?

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Quote from article: "The Soviet ethnic system was dual—primordialist on one hand (a premodern view of race carried over from Tsarism/pre-1917) and "Soviet" or socialist on the other. The fifth line on all Soviet passports listed the holder's ethnicity, which was called "nationality." This (the word "nationality" to describe ethnicity) in itself was also a misnomer which was based on at least some primordialist ideas of race."

  1. No source!
  2. Ethnicity/nationality = The text of the passport is in Russian. One can not argue from the meaning of the words in English.
  3. Primordialist argument = Opinions of the author
  4. The whole paragraph is, in my opinion, redundant in an article about a Soviet intelligence officer.

Shall I delete the paragraph? Luke (talk) 00:20, 4 August 2018 (UTC)Reply