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learning second language type stuff or shuffling people (*as in workers, not deportations, which weren't russian people being moved around) around ussr itself? If the second one, why anarchist suddenly concerned with ethnic purity? If the first one, what second language should people in ussr learn, english?
Like don't get me wrong, deportations inside ussr using kazakhstan as a dumping ground (crimean tartars definitely, but that was also uzbekistan i believe) and nuclear tests - that's very much bad, but i think, on the latter, ussr did them in russian parts as well, so it's equal sparsity of population stuff, not some deliberate policy.
She’s native american, she just brought up something a friend who’s of Kazakstani heritage told her about losing their language bc of Russification.
Edit: she also said that their mom had moved to Israel after the USSR collapsed so there’s that aspect of it, too.
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