Treatment of Minorities

Minorities cause problems. They show that everyone is different and differences tell people that not everyone is equal which goes against everything we are trying to create here in the Soviet Union. Not to mention, many of these groups like to promote and support their own culture instead of that of the Soviet Union.

I have started by making "the study of the Russian language obligatory in schools of all national republics and [autonomous] regions". School was also to be taught using the Cyrillic alphabet, so as to teach the culture of the Soviet Union instead of native culture and language. This was decreed on March 13, 1938.

I have found that the best way to deal with this problem is to deport these people to Siberia and Central Asia. I have deported many different ethnic minorities such as, Ukrainians, Balts, Chechens, Ingush, Balkars, Kalmyks, and Crimean Tatars. The Soviet Union is much better off with these people out of society. Russians are the best ethnicity. As I toasted on our Victory Day in May 1945, "I would like to raise a toast to the health of our Soviet people and, before all, the Russian people. I drink, before all, to the health of the Russian people, because in this war they earned general recognition as the leading force of the Soviet Union among all the nationalities of our country"