You are being distracted. They are ethnically cleansing Ukraine. But you aren't supposed to talk about that.
Back in Soviets times, they moved people around the Soviet Union. So that the people wouldn't be united and rise up.
For example - In Ukraine they moved out many Ukrainians, and moved in ethnic Russians. So that if the ethnic Ukrainians rose up and demanded to become their own country once again, they wouldn't just have to fight the government, they would also be fighting their fellow countrymen the ethnic Russians. Making it far harder for them to break away from the Soviet Union.
Under the Soviets, Ukraine became a mix of ethic Russians, and ethnic Ukrainians. During Soviet times, and after independence, in Ukraine the ethnic Russians would move to cities and areas that had large Russian populations. The Ukrainians would then move out of those areas. Eventually, Crimea became over 70% ethnic Russian, and Eastern Ukraine became the same.
When the 2014 Revolution happened, they started the ethnic cleansing of Ukraine. By doing things like outlawing the Russian language, imprisoning and murdering all ethnic Russian politicians, judges, etc.
Crimea, with its majority ethnic Russian population, immediately separated. But Ukraine managed to hold onto Eastern Ukraine. And since 2014, Ukraine has been ethnically cleansing Eastern Ukraine using a combination of war and generally making life there miserable. This will continue until the ethnic Russians are dead, or they abandon their businesses, land, and homes and just leave.
Meanwhile, you're told to ignore the ethnic cleansing. And you're doing exactly as you're told.
You are being distracted. They are ethnically cleansing Ukraine. But you aren't supposed to talk about that.
I am interested in hearing more of this take. When you get some time, elaborate on your post if you will.
The Wikipedia article on the does have a lot of good info. It is of course censored and bias. So read it with that in mind by taking anything negative and multiplying it by 10.
On one hand, Ukraine will become ethnically purer. On the other, it's the Jews trying to seize control over Ukraine through ethnic cleansing. And while Ukraine may initially become ethnically purer, it will fall under EU control and then end up like the rest of the EU.
As for the Soviets forcibly making areas more diverse in order to prevent them from rising up - Again, they sugar coat it because it was mainly against Northern Europeans. One quick fact is - By the fall of the Soviet Union, native Latvians represented only 52% of the population of their own country. In Estonia, the figure was 62%. Meanwhile, Kazakhstan is only 30% Kazakh.
Even Yeltsin (the last leader of the USSR) officially declared that the mass deportations were "Stalin's policy of defamation and genocide."
Me personally, I'm descended from Volga River Germans. So I have a lot of interest in this subject. Luckily my ancestors left before the Jews took over Russia. But if I search my last name, all I find are records of my relatives being relocated and dying in the Gulags.
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