No it wasn't, otherwise Tajiks wouldn't still have -ov and -ova at the end of their surnames. Also see link to article written in the late 70s by an actual anti-imperialist socialist, explaining why the Soviet Union totally was imperialist. https://www.marxists.org/history/erol/ncm-3/iwk-ussr.htm
Emopunker
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Why werent surnames in Soviet states derussified then?
Do you think imperialism in Russia stopped with the fall of the Tsar? If the Soviet Union was so anti-imperialist, why weren't surnames in member states derussified? Why weren't placenames derussified? Why didn't Russian settlers move back to the Russian homeland?
Same goes for the US and so on. At least reparations/compensation and derussification/deanglicization are necessary.
Why is attacking the outer reaches of Ukraine then, when NATO and US imperialism are the problem? Also how is the government nazi with two Jews in it's cabinet of ministers? You know, the central part of Nazism is the antisemitism. Pretty weak excuses for an invasion.
And there was another wave in 1946. Also it was a deportation. Deportation doesn't mean you get removed from your nation. It means you get removed from your homeland which could be a region, a state or a nation. Also they werent given a choice. And 1/3 of Ingush dying as a result of deportation still counts as genocide.
It's more reliable than the crap sources you tend to link to.
Sure, Solzhenitsyn was a fascist sympathizer in his later years. So as an alternative, I offer Kolyma Tales by Varlam Shalamov whose only sus thing was to say that the German army was effective for which he got ten years in a gulag which I think is pretty harsh for a statement like that. https://ia600707.us.archive.org/3/items/kolymatales/Kolyma%20Tales%20by%20Varlan%20Shalanov.pdf
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That was awfully fast reading for something I just posted a few minutes ago. Pretty sure you only skimmed over it instead of actually reading it. Otherwise you'd actually talk about the stuff written in it.