> Say what you will about USSR, they brought out a lot of people from nomad lifestyles to the modern life MMhh OK, lets not ignore the fordable settlement that

> Say what you will about USSR, they brought out a lot of people from nomad lifestyles to the modern life MMhh OK, lets not ignore the fordable settlement that literally wiped out the majority of the wealth of the steppe and and killed or starved to death up to 50% of people while inducing severe starvation and malnutrition on the rest of them. It basically was basically genocide that attempted to destroy a whole culture. And then forced to do basically forced labor on state farms for the next couple of decades on low efficiency state farms. The elites of those groups were moved to the gulags in large numbers as well. I understand that your experience are from a decades after that and a lot had changed. But while the mass death of Ukrainians is in the news often because of Crimea, the much higher % of death Kazakhs is basically ignored.