They did this throughout the USSR, everywhere, where the population wasn't Russian.

It wasn't communism. Oddly, Sov "internationalism" slightly attenuated Russification efforts.

In Ukraine they went as Russia for full-bore assimilationist colonialism.

https://www.nytimes.com/2022/11/13/world/europe/russia-kherson-ukraine.html?smid=tw-share

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