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aeer-166	Matusevich, Maxim	Probing the Limits of Internationalism: African Students Confront Soviet Ritual	2009	21	.pdf	application/pdf	9350	521	59	25 On another occasion, two African students refused to be part of a long established Soviet practice – an annual dispatch of thousands of Soviet students to work in the countryside during the harvest. Could it be that our students have grown tired of the hypocrisy of Communism and the Soviet system?‖ 30 More trouble brewed in 1964 and 1965, with African students in the USSR frequently reporting racist attacks, fights with Soviet youngsters, and even feeling compelled to ―carry knives for protection.‖ 31 Komsomol officials at Moscow State University (MGU) grudgingly acknowledged several instances of scandalous behavior exhibited by Soviet students but also argued that Africans and other foreigners at MGU had a limited understanding of the selfless and romantic nature of Soviet young men, many of whom preferred the hardship of toil in remote Siberia to the pleasures of Moscow high life.	cache/aeer-166.pdf	txt/aeer-166.txt