Re:Kazakhstan is changing its alphabet from Cyrillic to Lati...
by pvg on Wednesday April 25, 2018 @10:38PM
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Even that reference does not say anything close to "During Stalin, it was the general policy to suppress national languages." There was no such general policy, the thing you link talks about the tension between the desire for centralized (typically Russian) control and the Marxist ideological demands of 'internationalism'.
Re:Kazakhstan is changing its alphabet from Cyrillic to Lati...
by shmerl on Wednesday April 25, 2018 @10:39PM
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There was no "tension". Formal internationalism was quite effectively replaced with persecution of ethnic and religious minorities, including suppression of languages and education. Internationalists were some groups like Makhno's anarchists. Stalin was the complete opposite.
But I think I'm wasting my time here. If you want to deny historic facts, do it elsewhere.
It existed in general, but it was especially intense from 1930s until early 1950s. So during Stalin in particular a lot of damage was caused. It's not hard to point out at all.
See some references here: https://sh.diva-portal.org/smash/get/diva2:1164774/FULLTEXT0...
(from page 107).