Of course the Ukrainian intelligentsia, Ukrainian scientists and those who were politically savvy saw that Moscow would never tell the truth to Ukraine.
Russian science, once the envy of all Europe, had been devoted to strictly military purposes for so long that the intelligentsia had basically gone into hibernation.
Many of the intelligentsia had once cared deeply about the revolutionary movement: they believed that the Bolsheviks' commitment to education for all included all forms of education.
The workforce the intelligentsia the skill people were taking from here, and today we need the skilled workforce so that Africa can move forward to a better situation.
And Soviet society was stratified into four groups, each of which held various amounts of political power and prestige: apparatchiks or government officials, intelligentsia, industrial workers, and the rural peasantry.
The story goes that during his school days he was labelled " educable mentally handicapped" by the academic intelligentsia of his day and placed back from 6th grade to 5th grade.
If the peasants had been allowed to shared in the rule of law, if the intelligentsia had been allowed to play a role in public affairs, if some kind of meaningful constitutional monarchy could have been invented, if, if, if.