"What has happened has been that the socialist revolution
has not diminished but rather increased the number of
languages; for, by stirring up the lowest sections of
humanity and pushing them on to the political arena,
it awakens to new life a number of hitherto
unknown or little-known nationalities. Who could have
imagined that the old, tsairst Russia consisted of not
less than fifty nations and national groups? The
October Revolution, however, by breaking the old chains
and bringing a number of forgotten peoples and nationalities
on to the scene, gave them new life and a new development.
Today, India is spoken of as a single whole. But there can
scarecely be any doubt that, in the event of a revolutionary
upheaval in India, scores of hitherto unknown nationalities,
having their own separate languages and separate cultures,
will appear on the scene. And as regards implanting 
proletarian culture among the various nationalities, there
can scarcely be any doubt that this will proceed in
forms corresponding to the languages and manner of life of these
nationalities."

J. Stalin, May 18, 1925
"The Political Tasks of the University of the Peoples of the East:
Speech Delivered at a Meeting of Students of the Communist University
of the Toilers of the East," <I>Works</I> Vol. 7, 
(Moscow: Foreign Languages Publishing House, 1954), p. 141.

[MC5 comments:
This is very important to us in the imperialist countries today,
with the problem of the labor aristocracy being even greater than in
Stalin's day just as Lenin and Mao predicted if we did not have
victorious socialist revolution. It means that as the exploited
and oppressed awaken, we can expect to see more nations raise their
heads to the sky. Not being spoken of on CNN today says nothing about
what will happen for a nation as the socialist struggle progresses.
Today we may not hear much about "Aztlan," but that is bound to change.]