Why didnt the russian empire convert the baltic peoples and the finns to orthodoxy, especially when they led missions into siberia to convert the native peoples there?
Also why didnt it or the USSR make the balts use the cyrillic alphabet like they made the central asian and caucasians to do it?
> finns
They tested liberal ideas on them. Finland got the pretty good autonomy rule as part of Russia and even the kind of constitution.
>>1383406
But the rule of russian empire was supposed to be incredibly brutal and the embodiment of evil.
Many finns told me this.
>>1383415
The *real* brutality was somewhere else.
>>1383427
Where?
>>1383431
Central Asia / Siberia. Those are the places where Russians went turbo-genocide
>>1383530
There are hundreds of different tribes/ethnicities still living there and forming a large part of the population(russians for only 50% of Yakutia's population for example) unlike the native americans. They also had steadily rising populations until 90s where russian population uniformly shrank regardless of ethnicity. They still preserved their own customs and way of living, and even to a large extent their shamanistic religions. How is that "turbogenocide"?
>>1383758
>Russians are only 50% of the population in a land they're not native to
Wow that's great.
>>1383810
Smallpox killed roughly 90% of the natives (who were already very low in population compared to the Europeans) before the first American settlers even arrived, m8
>>1383816
>who were already very low in population compared to the Europeans
Basically the same thing with siberian tribes
