UdSSR: Zukunftsvision „Sowjetvolk"
USSR: Vision of the future "Soviet people"

Summary/Abstract: The author of the article, excerpts of which are reproduced below, deals with the theoretical and ideological foundations of the theme of the emergence of a “new type of community”, the “Soviet people” (sovetskij narod), which has been discussed repeatedly in the Soviet Union recently. In doing so, he emphasizes; that this development in the direction of “higher unity” in no way meant that the individual nations and nationalities renounced their own culture and language, but he left no doubt that “all-Soviet interests” should be given greater importance and “republic interests” on the other hand had to resign. In this context, it is emphasized that not only the Soviet Union as a whole is “multinational”, but also each individual republic, because, for example, not only Ukrainians lived in Ukraine and not only Kazakhs in Kazakhstan. Finally, the author points to the economy as an "integration factor" and advocates the "merging" power of multinational corporations. The "lingua franca" used, Russian, is considered - also for practical reasons - to be a supranational lingua franca that enables non-Russian nationals to access Russian and world culture.

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