Story background
In the 1950s, the African national independence movement was in full swing, and many African countries broke away from the rule of the original colonists and had a place in United Nations . Although these countries are small, they also have voting rights in the United Nations. You should know that mainland China had not yet obtained a legal seat in the United Nations at that time. In view of this, in order to expand their camp and win votes from African countries, the former Soviet leaders began to formulate preferential policies for Africa and actively win over African countries.
The Soviet Union’s policy of absorbing African students was introduced
At the beginning, the Soviet government adopted the method of directly spending money (free aid) to Africa. Later I found out that this was simply a bottomless pit. No matter how rich the Soviet Union had, it could not withstand it. Later, the then Soviet leader Khrushchev changed a policy, and changed it to the Soviet Union to provide funds to absorb the children of senior officials from African countries and authorities for free (relatively speaking, the higher education level) and outstanding students went to the Soviet Union to study in the Soviet Union (in fact, there were also many Africans who forged their academic qualifications and qualifications mixed in). Not only did these African students not have tuition fees when they studied in the Soviet Union, but the Soviet government also subsidized them with high living expenses every month (Editor's note: As Chinese, do you feel familiar with this policy? Press it first and not mention it, and there will be a special discussion in the article later). Khrushchev's idea at that time was very simple, which was to obtain the gratitude of these African "future stars" by providing free study opportunities and generous treatment to the children of second-generation officials and outstanding students in Africa, so that the future African government will get close to the Soviet Union. In other words, the Soviet Union hoped to cultivate its future agents in Africa through this method.
The consequences of frequent problems
What the Soviet authorities did not expect was that the trend of things did not develop according to Khrushchev's original idea. Instead, various problems occurred frequently, and in the end, the policy had to be terminated.
First of all, affected by the basic situation that Africa's overall education level was extremely low or its level of civilization and civilization was very low, these outstanding students taken for granted by the Soviet government were not entirely well-educated people in the normal modern and modern countries. On the contrary, there are actually many of them who cannot fully and fully understand that the Soviet Union introduced them to the Soviet Union to study abroad. Although the Soviet Union was considering its own interests, it was also a great opportunity for backward Africa. Most of them almost only recognize that the Soviet Union invited them because they had requests. In addition, they are not very civilized and have an innate wild nature. They were thrown into the material civilization at once and were relatively developed. In the world at that time, they could not remember that their country sent them to study in the Soviet Union with the mission of revitalizing their own country. As a result, the Soviet Union became their paradise for enjoyment. At that time, the high living expenses provided by the Soviet government were enough to allow them to live a living standard of even more than twice the average Soviet citizen at that time. In other words, these African students enjoyed the treatment of super-Soviet citizens in the Soviet Union. There is an old Chinese saying that is very true - to think about lust with fullness and warmth. These African students (Note: These African students are basically men. It is easy to think about this. It is estimated that Africa also has a serious mentality of favoring boys over girls) After eating and drinking, they naturally have sexual physiological needs. However, when they are in a foreign country, where can they go to find female African students to fall in love? It's not realistic at all! So, they could only have the idea of fighting the national girl. Seeing this, do you guys feel like this? Bad things are about to happen.
First of all, the following text does not mean that the author is promoting racial discrimination here, so I do not use a word about the skin color of some countries in the whole text. I am just restoring history and explaining facts. Back to the topic, some arrogant fighting ethnic girls seem to look down on these African students and reject the courtship of these African students.As a result, some African students who "love but cannot get it" have committed multiple sexual assaults in the Soviet Union. Of course, given the national conditions of the Soviet Union with more women and fewer men, and the bold and direct courting of Africans and the rich at hand, many Soviet girls also accepted courting from African students and started dating with them. Even in the Soviet Union at that time, there was an African male student who had several Soviet girlfriends (sex partners) at the same time. This phenomenon of promiscuity objectively caused the spread of STDs. What's worse is that some of these girls originally had Soviet boyfriends, which was equivalent to cuckolding the young men of the fighting nation. From the perspective of Soviet men, their country provided African students with such good learning opportunities and such generous treatment, but they fed up girls from their own country in the Soviet Union, cuckolded men from their own country, and spread sexually transmitted diseases by promiscuously. There is another saying in China that goes: "It's tolerant, but it's unbearable!" So the Soviet citizens expressed great anger and threw all kinds of bad languages at these African students, saying that they were gorilla that just came out of the primeval forest, a mobile syphilis pathogen, etc., and those Soviet girls who dated and fell in love with African students would also be scolded as "people who are more despicable than the lowest prostitutes." In turn, these African students believe that the Soviet Union is engaged in racial discrimination. Once the seeds of hatred are planted, various vicious incidents will occur more and more frequently. From an individual perspective, it is manifested as frequent incidents of alcoholism, violent crimes, sexual harassment, and sexual assault on Soviet women related to those Africans. From a group perspective, it is manifested as the constant protests from African students to the Soviet government through diplomatic consulates to cause trouble for the Soviet government. In the end, it even developed to the point where the Soviet authorities sent special intelligence personnel to monitor African students in their territory. In short, the contradiction between Soviet society and African students is getting deeper and deeper. Finally, at the end of 1963, an incident in which an African student died unexpectedly outside Moscow (after investigation and evidence collected by the Soviet police, it was confirmed that the student was frozen to death due to alcoholism) triggered a vicious political incident like the siege of hundreds of African students in Moscow that shocked the world. This incident was hyped, smeared and provoked by the US and the Western world, the Soviet Union's mortal enemy at that time, and had a great negative impact on the Soviet Union's international influence. Although the Soviet Union took superficial compromises at that time and temporarily agreed to all the public relations emergency measures required by African students who were demonstrative in order to quickly calm the situation, a large number of African students were quickly sent back to their country by the Soviet authorities. This Soviet approach undoubtedly left a grudge in the hearts of those African students. Taking this incident as a node, the number of Africans studying in the Soviet Union has gradually decreased. Until now, there are few Africans in Russia. It is worth mentioning that due to the above unpleasant experiences, those students who had studied in the Soviet Union did not show the actions they expected to make the Soviet Union look forward to after returning to their own motherland. After returning to China, many international students even began to say bad things about the Soviet Union, accusing the Soviets of racial discrimination against them.
summary
Facts have proved that the policy of providing African students with generous treatment to absorb Africans to study in the Soviet Union for the purpose of winning over Africa and cultivating future African agents ended in failure. Not only did the Soviet Union not eat mutton, but instead made him slut, which became an international joke.
Lesson Analysis
The giant wheel of history rolls forward, changing with unpredictable times, and the current world has undergone tremendous changes. The Soviet Union, which once fought for hegemony with the United States, no longer exists. Instead, the country that stands in the same sequence as the United States has been replaced by China. To borrow a motto from a great man: "What is politics? Politics means making friends more and enemies less." From the meaning of this sentence, whether the former Soviet leader Khrushchev wanted to win over Africa or unite Africa, his original intention and thought were correct, but his approaches were worth reflecting on.Because at present, our country also needs to win more friends internationally. The author wants to take the liberty to make a brief analysis of the former Soviet Union's policy of absorbing international students for reference.
The author believes that, first of all, the Soviet people, especially the Soviet leader at that time, Khrushchev was careless in doing things and doing many work details were not done properly, which was the main reason for the failure of the policy. Before the Soviet leader decided to implement the policy of absorbing African students to study in the Soviet Union, he did not conduct a detailed evaluation and analysis of Africans' language, culture, cognitive level, political literacy, etc., and then made detailed arrangements, so he decided to start implementing this policy. For example, not all the Africans who applied to study in the Soviet Union at that time were all outstanding young people in Africa who took it for granted. They carefully screened African students who applied to study in the Soviet Union, resulting in the uneven quality of African students studying in the Soviet Union, which brought a lot of trouble to the subsequent management work. Relatively speaking, Africans have a very low overall education level, and there are also many people who have falsified their experiences and qualifications. They suddenly transferred a group of people who were backward in all aspects to the Soviet Union, whose material conditions were much higher than their own motherland, and whose streets were full of blond hair, blue eyes, small waists, fair skin, beautiful and long legs. In addition, the Soviet government also gave them living expenses that were more than twice as good as those of the average Soviet citizen. It would be strange if there is no problem?
Secondly, compared with the experience of African students studying in the United States and the West at the same time, the experience of African students studying in the Soviet Union is not as good as that of the United States and the West. Taking the comparison between the United States and the Soviet Union as an example, first, compared with the Soviet Union, American society is relatively open, and various entertainment life is much richer than that of the Soviet society. African students studying in the Soviet Union will feel more boring. Second, there were African Americans in the United States. Although there was also serious racial discrimination in the United States, African students were much more free and convenient to make friends and fall in love in the United States than in the Soviet Union. In contrast, and after some conflicts between Soviet society and African students later occurred, under the smear and provocation of public opinion from the United States and the West, it seems easy to imagine that African students are more pro-US.
Suggestion
There is another old saying in China that says it very well: "Learn from the past, and the teacher of the future." At present, our China also has a policy similar to the former Soviet Union to absorb African students. In order not to repeat the mistakes of the former Soviet Union, the author would like to put forward the following suggestions.
1. my country can apply through diplomatic channels to open some educational institutions such as Confucius Institute and Chinese training institutions in Africa in advance. It is stipulated that African students who have applied to study abroad and have obtained academic qualifications can be given priority to qualify. The country should have been doing this, and it is worthy of praise.
2. China should formulate strict standards and procedures for absorbing foreign students to study in China. It is necessary to control the scale (indicators) well, rather than lacking than being too much. Carefully screen foreign students who apply to study abroad. The screening I am talking about is not just looking at the materials they submitted. my country's consulates and staff abroad can even take the initiative to dig and recommend students who meet our requirements to study in China.
3. A villain comes first and then a gentleman, and ugly words are spoken before. When we negotiate with African consulates in China about studying in China, we must clearly let the other consulate staff know in oral and written form that African students must abide by Chinese laws during their study in China. Once Chinese laws are violated, they will be subject to Chinese laws. You can speak tactfully, but you must stick to the principles.
4. When we absorb foreign students, we must consider the issue of gender ratio and must be balanced.
5. Colleges and universities that accept African students can give African students preferential treatment in terms of economics, but they must resolutely eliminate the ridiculous practice of specially equipped them with beautiful female college students to accompany them to study in a few years, similar to those exposed in previous years.
号: The above text is compiled by the author based on the online information and my personal understanding. Perhaps there is incomplete information and the expression is biased. Please understand.
