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Re:The Sovietisation of the Mongolian language and challenge... by Strom on Saturday May 08, 2021 @02:04PM (#27089393)
> Say what you will about USSR, they brought out a lot of people from nomad lifestyles to the modern life with widespread education

The USSR also took a lot of educated modern lifestyle people and sent them to Siberian forced labor camps. The whole thing was very much a calculated plan to replace the educated upper and middle class with new people that would be more loyal to Stalin.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Population_transfer_in_the_Sov...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Forced_settlements_in_the_Sovi...

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