re: #843 jcm

Soviet Russia internal passports were labeled with racial identity, as perceived by the Politburo. If this was stamped anything other than Russian, say Lithuanian chance for preferred treatment in anything was extremely limited.

Do you know why the US got into the business of issuing marriage licenses? So they could screen applicants for race, and prevent interracial unions (miscegenation). A lot of racism was spread around everywhere in those times. But some of it was inextricably intertwined with the intrinsically inherent character of a political system (Right-Hegelian Fascism), while much of it was not.