We often see black students studying abroad in China, and some schools even give them special treatment and arrange for them to have study partners. Many years ago, the Soviet Union also used this trick and gave them high subsidies. What happened in the end?
Background
Africa has been in a backward state for a long time in history, being trafficked and colonized are the norm.
After World War II many African countries had the consciousness of rising, they proposed revolution one after another, resisted oppression, and finally became a newborn country.
Although the financial resources of these countries are average, they still have a numerical advantage in the United Nations at that time. Whoever can win over these African countries in can also have more decision-making power in many matters.
At that time, the United States and the Soviet Union had entered the Cold War period. In order to win over African countries, the two countries resorted to different tactics.
The United States has given a lot of economic aid , and promised to help them improve their economic system.
The Soviet Union started from two aspects. On the one hand, it sent a large number of Soviet experts and to help them build domestic infrastructure. On the other hand,
selected young international students from African countries and allowed them to study in the Soviet Union. After the overseas students return to China, they have extremely high authority in the country. With their support, they also get the support of these African countries.
So in January 1960, Khrushchev secretly announced an order to strengthen cultural ties with Sub-Saharan African countries. In addition, a school was specially built in Moscow, and excellent teachers from all over the country were mobilized to train African students.
Later, the number of African students studying abroad continued to increase. At the beginning of the order, there were only about 70 African students studying in China.
By the end of 1960, the number of overseas students in China had reached more than 4,000.
Conflicts frequently occurred
After more than 4,000 people entered the Soviet Union, the Soviet Union also gave them extremely high treatment, not only reimbursed their round-trip air tickets, but also exempted all tuition fees,
also gave them a monthly subsidy, earns about 90 rubles a month in . Compared with ordinary workers in the Soviet Union, this income is only high but not low.
These international students hold a large amount of subsidies and can go to many local high-end places. They no longer remember to study and build their own country in the Soviet Union.
hooked up with Soviet female students every day, and made troubles on the street when they were drunk. Their behavior also aroused the dissatisfaction of Soviet students.
themselves are also students, but blacks can get higher subsidies. The school has few restrictions on them, which has already caused dissatisfaction among Soviet students.
plus some Soviet students have discrimination against African blacks. Many African students also have many problems, so there are more and more conflicts between non-Soviet students.
In 1960, a Somali black man complained to the government, claiming that he was beaten by four Soviet students.
The truth is that this Somali student drank too much alcohol and molested a Soviet female student on the street. Several Soviet male students didn't like it before doing it.
At that time, there were actually many conflicts like this. At that time, African students had a relatively high status in the Soviet Union, and they often received a lot of preferential treatment.
Even the Soviet Union allowed them not to study communism. Under this kind of differential treatment The resentment of native Soviet students is also growing.
And the African students were not satisfied either. They came to the Soviet Union from faraway Africa and originally had very beautiful fantasies about this communist country. After
arrived here, found that some people still had discriminatory thoughts, made it difficult for them to accept;
and were , which were still different in terms of material compared with western countries, and they wanted to go to other western countries .
Red Square demonstrations
On December 19, 1963, a Ghanaian international student was frozen to death in the suburbs. The explanation given by the government at that time was that the international student drank too much alcohol, slept in the suburbs and then died of freezing.
But the black international students didn't believe it. They felt that they had been discriminated against and treated differently. There was something hidden behind the death of the Ghanaian international student. So these international students gathered hundreds of people and came to Red Square to hold a demonstration.
There are also some foreign students with bad conduct. Under the instigation of these people, they put forward more unreasonable demands, want more allowances, better housing, and demand that the Soviet Union allow them to go to Western countries at public expense Go on vacation.
Later they issued a petition,
requesting the Soviet authorities to investigate the cause of death of the Ghanaian students,
thoroughly investigate the violence suffered by African students,
strictly prohibit any further acts of racial discrimination,
hope that the Soviet Union can take action to ensure For the personal safety of international students,
These students came to Red Square to protest and demonstrate, holding slogans and posters of "No Racial Discrimination" they made themselves.
Student companion system
The underworld filter master at that time BBC was even more treasured, and rushed to interview and take pictures. These African students also accepted their interviews, which greatly affected the international image of the Soviet Union. A detailed investigation into the cause of the death of the international student was carried out, and an autopsy was conducted. After the autopsy, it was found that there was no external beating injury on his body. He simply drank too much alcohol and slept in the suburbs and was frozen to death.
They are still discussing the demands made by African students, and after the African students besieged the Red Square demonstrations.
There was a wave of boycotts throughout the Soviet Union. Domestic students had long been dissatisfied with their special treatment, and now they are still protesting and demonstrating. They are simply white-eyed wolves.
The Soviet government later realized this too, and they took action by banning self-organized black student unions and deporting the organizers.
Many black international students who participated in the demonstration were expelled from the Soviet Union.
The Soviet Union implemented the school buddy system in the school, let the Communist Youth League members supervise and help African students, every African student has a school buddy. The main job of
school buddies is to supervise their Russian learning, care for them, and supervise their personal hygiene. When
was actually running, these Communist Youth League members often gathered around the black dormitories, and was outside to observe whether these black people needed "help", and would directly rush into the black dormitories to check their hygiene and help them tidy up.
The African students who stayed behind were miserable, trembling every day, and obediently returned home after finishing their studies. After
, the Soviet Union also stopped the special treatment for African students and no longer accepted African students.
Now in Russia, Ukraine, , Belarus, and other countries, black people are relatively rare, and there are also reasons for this.
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