How do you respond to this? It’s not something I’ve done a lot of research into, but it seems like one of the few critiques where you just say “critical support for the USSR, we need to learn from the past mistakes the soviets made and do better the next time around.”

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[–] Chertstone@hexbear.net 6 points 3 days ago

Modern day Kazakhstan is currently moving into the ukraine revisionist direction. Especially due to pan-turanism and growing Kazakh population moving north into formerly russian majority regions. There was a similar issue in Siberia, where russia build a city to develop the local economy and 50k (for example russians) while 10k native Siberians lived in rural regions before (and werent kicked out afterwards).

So on paper it appears to look like that suddenly the an ASSR of 90% natives became only 30%! Of course then you had people moving to these cities for healthcare or education reasons and suddenly people started assimilating. Although a lot of the issues were caused by the need for autocracy (like growing cotton in central asia) and corn-man-khrush