'Russification' was the Soviet era policy of creating unity throughout the constitutional states of the USSR by diluting nationalist sentiment through the impos

'Russification' was the Soviet era policy of creating unity throughout the constitutional states of the USSR by diluting nationalist sentiment through the imposition of a common language, along with the migration of ethnic Russians to countries where they were not already a majority. Paradoxically and ostensibly an anti-nationalist move, it can of course also be seen - and be more readily seen - as a form of hyper nationalism. All of the former Soviet Republics, mirroring the former Warsaw Pact countries, are now accelerating their de-Russification