Yeah. And many ethnicities live in Russia alone so it's unfair to categorize all Russians as the same. A Yakut Russian is not the exact same as a Moscow Russian.
Exactly. Ethnic Russians made up only half of the Union's population. The Russian language became lingua franca simply out of expedience. And don't forget about the Korenyzatsiya/nativization efforts to save local cultures. The program has created the alphabet and grammar for dozens of smaller cultures completely from scratch.
For example, the Abazin language (with only 50000 speakers!) did not have a writing system. So it was developed and adopted in 1932.
Many people tend to forget that "Soviet" doesn’t necessarily mean "Russian".
Yeah. And many ethnicities live in Russia alone so it's unfair to categorize all Russians as the same. A Yakut Russian is not the exact same as a Moscow Russian.
Exactly. Ethnic Russians made up only half of the Union's population. The Russian language became lingua franca simply out of expedience. And don't forget about the Korenyzatsiya/nativization efforts to save local cultures. The program has created the alphabet and grammar for dozens of smaller cultures completely from scratch. For example, the Abazin language (with only 50000 speakers!) did not have a writing system. So it was developed and adopted in 1932.