I grew up in a little republic which is smaller than Tatar Republic and we hadn't problems with the national literature. Of course it wasn't so rich, I've never

I grew up in a little republic which is smaller than Tatar Republic and we hadn't problems with the national literature. Of course it wasn't so rich, I've never managed to find Ulysses in that language. I have an impression that when Moscow sent plans like "to rise X new writers and to print out Y new books in the ______ language" , local party members were catching people on the streets to create new republican poets of them.