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What do you think happened to French colons in Algeria in 1962, which had a govt supported by the USSR?   To Jews throughout the mideast, to South Asians in east africa, etc.  Decolonization is unpleasant to both colonisers, and minorities who had been under the protection of colonial authorities.  USSR never worried about that though.

Note, all the citations are to problems in central asia - not to the Baltics, whose independence and sovereignty are most challenged by Russia now - the central asian countries get along politically with Putin though. [/quote]

First, Azerbaijan isn't in Central Asia.

Second, if you think local Russians in the Baltic republics did not experience discrimination and disenfranchisement, you aren't paying attention.[/quote]

Azerbaijan is close to Central Asia (right across the Caspian) and has historic and demographic parallels. The main difference seems to be that Putin supports Armenia vs Azerbaijan.

And yes, I have followed the Baltics.   Countries that were annexed illegally to the USSR, where the russian speakers are "settlers", where they did not adopt local languages, were used to extinguish independence, and lived in large enough numbers to threaten sovereignty.   And the discrimination they faced in citizenship was not at all comparable to the threats to life and limb faced by many of the minorities I mention above regarding decolonization.

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