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Russia has for centuries repeated a pattern of territorial conquest followed by forced deportations and ethnic cleansing, connected with erasure of domestic languages and culture. In 1914, Vladimir Lenin called Russia тюрьма народов, "prison of nations". https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prison_of_peoples https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Territorial_evolution_of_Russia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Population_transfer_in_the_Soviet_Union https://www.justsecurity.org/81789/russias-eliminationist-rhetoric-against-ukraine-a-collection/ https://press.un.org/en/2022/ga12407.doc.htm https://soviethistory.msu.edu/1943-2/deportation-of-minorities/ https://www.britannica.com/place/Baltic-states/Soviet-republics https://dash.harvard.edu/bitstream/handle/1/3229636/Martin%201998.pdf https://scholarworks.uvm.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1010&context=castheses https://apnews.com/article/ukraine-russia-war-crimes-un-human-rights-c52676801b588a95a8410bc71b62d568 https://newlinesinstitute.org/rules-based-international-order/genocide/the-russian-federations-escalating-commission-of-genocide-in-ukraine-a-legal-analysis/
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