Comment by Joker_vD
1 day ago
Do... you refer to the "korenizatsiya" [0] effort during which the Russian language/culture/tradition was heavily penalized and the local ethnic languages/cultures/traditions elevated to the official and mandatory status?
There are enough of open letters from the local Russian-descended population to the central papers that complained about such policy, and even more articles in those papers as the response that declare that yes, the Party absolutely wants to stamp out the Russian cultural influences from the national republics because otherwise there is no chance to build the socialism, so if the not quite politically correct workers would please stop complaining so much and keep in with the Party line, thank you — or else. Thankfully, until the mid-30s that "or else" was mostly sacking from the current place of work and expulsion from the Party.
... and in typical fashion of Stalin, first he substantially created this policy, and then he completely reversed it in 1938, so that Russian became mandatory to teach in all schools and the local nationals in leadership positions were purged.