Europe
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Yes, and not only Ukraine. I would like to draw attention also to the Soviets' efforts to erode, or outright kill, Siberian native populations, which happened in the same political context as the Soviet Union's genocide against Ukrainians.
To name only one example, which here on wikipedia is misrepresened:
The misrepresenation is in wording it as "crushing a rebellion." There lived around 215k Buryats in Buryatia at the time. 35k, the number reportedly killed when "crushing a ('nationalist') rebellion," is 16.3% of all Buryats in Buryatia at the time.
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Another 5%. Up to over 20% Killing one fifth of a peoples isn't "crowd control," it's genocide.
This is only one peoples of many that the soviets attempted (or succeded) to eradicate. And i'm not even touching on planned famines, dispersion, or using natives as cannon-fodder in wars. This is ongoing even in modern Russia - native Siberian peoples are overrepresented in the invasion forces in Ukraine:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buryats#History https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buryatia#Ethnic_groups
Again, just a single example of many. And not just Siberia, but no non-Rus peoples in or near Russia is spared from this. It'd be worth several dissertations to go into any detail on all sides of the Soviets' (and now Russia's) colonization and rusification efforts. Of course, i recognize that the West also has very many bodies in its basements, and i don't mean to distract from that, don't get me wrong - it's just that Russia's crimes are much less often talked about, i feel particularly emotionally invested, and Russia (formerly Soviet Russia) is routinely representing itself as oh so anti-nationalist or anti-nazi, even as some of the same policies are ongoing in 2025.