Why didn't the Soviet Union incorporate into itself the post-WW2 Eastern Bloc states as SSRs? Is it solely because of Yalta?
>>1322889
Because Stalin was a realist who understood putting numerous different peoples who don't speak the same language into a union is unworkable in everything from demdemograp harmony to language barriers.
>>1322906
>putting numerous different peoples who don't speak the same language into a union
But the USSR was exactly that to begin with, fuck you talking about?
>>1322910
Yes, and Stalin spent the entitity of his rule forcefully migrating people who looked like they were going to start shit. He worked within the parameters he was given.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Population_transfer_in_the_Soviet_Union
>>1322910
>But the USSR was exactly that to begin with, fuck you talking about?
wrong
USSR inherited huge territories that were already half-way "colonised" by Tsar government so they already all spoke Russian and share sometimes centuries of common legacy living together
Soviets just arrived on that foundation and shifted power from exclusively Russian tsar officials to local communist cells giving natives more autonomy over themselves but still keeping on Moscow
