It could have been done without wiping out the people, language, and culture. Ukranians were targeted because they were a large minority and had valuable land.
Every year since 1929 has seen the publication of more books in the Ukrainian language than were published in the whole 118 years before the Revolution.
What a novel way to attempt to wipe out a language, publishing books in it.
The USSR started out with a policy of indigenization. This allowed the Soviet Union to establish control over outlying and rebellious regions after the Civil War. However, according to the Soviets, this policy also gave the outlying regions the ability to organize against yhe state. This policy would unofficially end in 1932 and officially swapped for Russification in 1938.
It could have been done without wiping out the people, language, and culture. Ukranians were targeted because they were a large minority and had valuable land.
What a novel way to attempt to wipe out a language, publishing books in it.
It wasn’t successful. The Soviets relented, and the famine lifted.
https://www.jstor.org/stable/2496868
The USSR started out with a policy of indigenization. This allowed the Soviet Union to establish control over outlying and rebellious regions after the Civil War. However, according to the Soviets, this policy also gave the outlying regions the ability to organize against yhe state. This policy would unofficially end in 1932 and officially swapped for Russification in 1938.
https://www.history.com/articles/ukrainian-famine-stalin
Suprise suprise, it ended the same year millions of Ukranians would die in a man-made famine.
So, the Soviet decided to Russify ukraine, what actions did they take?
Heh, novel way