https://www.rbth.com/history/326412-stalin-jewish-autonomous-region-russia >>Crimean California The first option emerged in 1926 when Moscow announced support for a Jewish autonomous region in the Crimea, whereby about 96,000 Jewish families would move there. The project gained an international dimension when in 1929 the USSR signed an agreement with the American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee, a Jewish relief organization based in New York. It gave $1.5 million a year to finance “Crimean California” and Jewish resettlement to the region. The USSR started to equip communes in Crimea for Jews to live in. It started well: several communes were created and worked effectively planting seeds and developing cattle breeding.**However, problems soon emerged: local groups, who were envious of the well-financed Crimean Jews, started pogroms and created serious unrest in the peninsula.** Dissatisfied, Stalin slowly shut down “Crimean California,” and devised a new plan: move the Jews to remote areas in Siberia where there was plenty of land and no reason to fight. There That's the solution Even stalin gave up on his foreign "injection" idea, due to "serious unrest" Don't let history start and settle on "everything went always just fine", it has to derail on day1 for things to change eventually