Putin’s Russification in the occupied cities: a colonial doctrine ranging from ancient Rome to the USSR

There is also a Soviet matrix in the Russification operation that Putin is launching in the Ukrainian cities occupied between the Donbass and the Black Sea. Since the time of Stalin, entire communities have been moved from one end of the USSR to the other, following criteria ethnic groups that coincided with political ideas: the Cossacks who remained loyal to the Tsar ended up in Siberia; those sided with the Red Army, on the other hand, obtained fertile lands on the Don.