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Nov 7, 2026
speaker_2HOST
And the military commanders also imposed crushing economic levies and plundered local shops.
speaker_2HOST
They enforced a harsh policy of Russification, actively trying to dismantle the local communal infrastructure overnight.
speaker_1HOST
So Ansky is moving through these devastated towns, seeing the ancient wooden synagogues he had literally just photographed a year earlier now reduced to desecrated rubble.
speaker_2HOST
The vibrant markets were destroyed.
Samo BurjaGUEST
right, the Manchu, the Mongol, the Chinese, etc.
Samo BurjaGUEST
There's a weird type of ideological multiculturalism already baked in, very similar to the Soviet version, when the Soviet Union, the goal was not at first Russification, the goal was sort of undertaking this communist revolution, and actually developing the smaller ethnicities and nationalities and kind of using them politically as a base of power.
Wolf TivyHOST
Yeah, so the part of this that I find myself more skeptical of is not the ideological part.
Wolf TivyHOST
I think ideologically, states can be extremely flexible whenever they have a reason to.
Carl ReulertHOST
And so there was inherent tension.
Carl ReulertHOST
Centralisation tended to produce Russification, even when Bolshevik ideology officially rejected Russian nationalism.
Carl ReulertHOST
The question of nationalities became part of Lenin's wider concern about Stalin's growing power.
Carl ReulertHOST
Tensions rose between the two in 1922 and 1923, and Lenin became agitated about leaving the Communist Party to Stalin.
speaker_3UNKNOWN
Oh, Melania did that.
Roxanne KincaidHOST
Radio correspondent for the BBC... ewan mcdonald said is she seriously thanking the woman who's under international sanctions by the eu us uk and other nations and who's been charged in absentia in ukraine for her alleged role in facilitating the unlawful transfer and deportation of ukrainian children from occupied territories to russia what a disgusting spectacle shame on america a French foreign policy expert, Nicholas Tenzer, on the other hand, said, praising a person sanctioned by the EU, the UK, Ukraine, and the US for her active role in the deportation and forced Russification of Ukrainian kids.
Roxanne KincaidHOST
Luis Moreno, who is a former US ambassador, said, you know, all kidding aside, FLOTUS not only invited this war criminal who kidnaps Ukrainian children to Russia, into the White House, but she's honoring and praising her beyond disgusting.
Roxanne KincaidHOST
But it's just more of the same.
Ray BusuttilGUEST
when people were just, I think, shocked to see the level of brutality on the streets of the modern-day city that they've had to defend themselves behind wooden barricades and makeshift structures.
Ray BusuttilGUEST
So it's been going since then, but Ukraine in its long history has, has at different times been repressed by the Soviet Union, definitely, and then the Russification of the people trying to eradicate Ukrainian culture.
Eric SkatteboCORRESPONDENT
As I understand it, Stalin starved millions of Ukrainians back in the 30s, 1930s.
Eric SkatteboCORRESPONDENT
Correct, yeah.
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In 1956, after the death of Joseph Stalin and the implementation of the de-Stalinization directives that sought to wipe away any hero-worshipping lunacy that had been cultivated around the long-lasting Soviet leader, Chechnyan and English civilians were allowed to return to their homelands, but many arrived back to find others from around the Soviet Union now living in their ancestral homes.
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A series of Russification policies were established even after de-Stalinization, as Russia sought to quietly continue the old ways of subjecting the region's people and slowly eradicating their culture and history.
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Ethnic tension between the Chechens and the Russians in the region bubbled away, and it really wasn't until the 1980s that the Chechens once again found themselves as the majority in their homeland.
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As the Soviet House of Cards started to come crashing down, the question of independence swept through the regions of the USSR.
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When he was 8 years old, his father sent him to school in Odessa, the major city of the Crimea on the Black Sea in southern Ukraine.
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Here he was placed in an environment in which a historically multicultural city was becoming increasingly Russified, in line with imperial policy.
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From early on, his rebellious streak was evident and while at Odessa, he organized a strike against an unpopular teacher.
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The events of this time also appear to have been formative in the life of the young Trotsky.
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He also pushed an enormous amnesty, affecting more than a million prisoners, although the majority were ordinary criminals rather than the political prisoners most associated with the gulag.
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He advocated reducing Russification in the Soviet republics and questioned Stalin's hardline in East Germany.
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And he began dismantling pieces of the terror machine that he himself had spent years helping to operate.
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Of course, this did not suddenly transform Leventry Berry into a humanitarian.
Sviatlana TsikhanouskayaGUEST
You're absolutely right.
Sviatlana TsikhanouskayaGUEST
Now, while we are fighting against dictatorship, while we are fighting against Russian oppression in our country, we see this process of Russification.
Sviatlana TsikhanouskayaGUEST
We see how Russia wants to subjugate our nation.
Sviatlana TsikhanouskayaGUEST
They want to erase everything Belarusian.
Pete QuiñonesHOST
As for the 1909 debate in the Slovo columns, it was not limited to the Jewish question, but turned into a discussion of Russian national consciousness, which, after the 80 years of silence that followed, remains today still vivacious and instructive.
Pete QuiñonesHOST
P. Struve wrote Just as we must not Russify those who do not want it, so we must not dissolve ourselves in Russian multinationalism.
Pete QuiñonesHOST
V. Golubev protested against the monopolization of patriotism and nationalism by reactionary groups.
Pete QuiñonesHOST
We have lost sight of the fact that the victories won by the Japanese have had a disastrous effect on the popular conscience and national sentiment.
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Pete QuiñonesHOST
And yet, even if apparently the year 1909 was rather peaceful, one felt that the storm was in the air.
Pete QuiñonesHOST
However, certain things were not lost sight of M. Slavinsky.
Pete QuiñonesHOST
Attempts to Russify or, more exactly, to impose the Russian, Russian model on Russia have had a disastrous eff- disastrous effect on living national peculiarities, not only of all the non-sovereign peoples of the empire, but also and above all the people of Great Russia.
Pete QuiñonesHOST
The cultural force, forces of the people of Great Russia proved insufficient for this.
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