:zizek: I LOVE COLLEGE :zizek:

edit: thirty years old, post-soviet country origins, used lived experience when I pressed the point :zizek-preference:

  • geikei [none/use name]
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    2 years ago

    The SSRs had (mostly? entirely?) ethnic bases

    some were designed to have ethnicaly based political self determination and (X ethnicity republic) with actual comprehensive ethnic character on those level even in chases that the ethnicity was a minority in the territories. Which is unprecedented

    Post-1920, Bashkirs of the Bashkir Autonomous SSR were never a majority. In ’59, Bashkirs were 737,744 (22.1%), Russians 1,418,147 (40.6%) & the rest 1,185,718. (32.3%), yet the Bashkirs kept autonomy

    in the Kazakh SSR in 1959, Kazakhs were only 2.79 million (30%), Russians 3.97 million (42.7%) and Ukrainians 762,131 (8.2%). Did the Russians/Ukranians claim the Kazakh SSR as “Orthodox land” b/c they were the +50% majority? No! They respected Kazakh autonom