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Russification and Sovietization

Policies that demanded or coerced assimilation functioned in practice as a cultural hierarchy that privileged Russian norms and marginalized non-Russian peoples.

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Stalin was never racist.

The claim " was never racist" is false as an absolute statement: ideology officially rejected racism, but Stalin-era policies and practices produced racialized outcomes—including , nationalizing of tr...