Like carve out a place between Russia, Belarus and Ukraine in the former Pale of Settlement. Establish a bunch of Yiddish language schools there. Have it become a center of Jewish culture. Sure, there are already Ukrainians, Russians and Belorussians there but there were already people in the far east too.

  • regul [any]
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    2 years ago

    The Kalmyks also got moved around a lot. Ostensibly for support of the White Army and later the Nazis, but Stalin seemed to really not like pastoral nomads generally.

    • Anemasta [any]
      hexagon
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      2 years ago

      It is sort of an axiom of anarchist historiography that state projects, especially ambitious ones, really don't like nomads and itinerant people.