To be fair, there was actually a plan to transition the Russian language to use the Latin Alphabet. The main advocate of Romanization was People's Commissar for Public Education Anatoly Lunacharsky, who viewed the adoption of the script as a way to more effectively communicate with the global proletariat, and inspired by the similar Romanization of the Turkish language under Atatürk. Lenin was supportive of the plan, but believed in a more gradual approach. After the Civil War, the project began in earnest, although towards the various minority languages rather than Russian itself. The planned Romanization was cancelled by Stalin in 1930, with nearly all of Russia's minority languages having received Latin alphabets, even those that were previously entirely oral, but Russian, Belarusian, and Ukrainian were put off-limits. Later from 1936 to 1940, a similar policy was pursued, but towards Cyrillization of minority languages, except for languages that already had Latin alphabets such as Polish or Yiddish. The only non-Latin language that was not a target for Cyrillization was Georgian, as it already had its own alphabet. Lenin probably expected the Soviet Union to exclusively use the Latin alphabet by 1990.