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'I heard people on SB and Twitter say things' is not a source. ]Here's what I've generally seen when I was looking around. There were other sources, but this easily compiled it in one place.

Got any sourcing on that? From what I've seen, the major people-shuffling was more or less over by the middle of the century.

And when did the USSR do their people-shuffling into those nations, hm?

Really? This language says 'Russian speaking minority,' not 'the specific people who were imported, but not their Russian-speaking descendants.' You did later say 'Kids born in said nations can stay, I guess' but I had interpreted that to mean 'people who are currently children,' and assumed...

No, I'm not. I'm simply not assuming that because someone was relocated under the USSR, or their parents were, or their grandparents, or their great grandparents, that they're a member of a fifth column waiting to happen. You are.

You just assert these things, that it is a bygone conclusion that all of these Russian-descended people are foreign agents just waiting to happen. You ignore the costs and difficulties involved in removing them, you ignore the political and cultural damage you do to yourself, you ignore all...

The problem with your idea that I was explaining isn't that it's 'spiteful' or 'dirty.' The problem with it is that it would accomplish nothing, and cause you a whole host of problems in exchange for that. Dirty tactics that are effective would be things like a successful assassination attempt...

There's a number of problems here. First, taking a dictator's excuse away only helps for as long as it takes him to come up with a new excuse. Usually, that'll be at most the length of one staff meeting. So your idea of kicking out Russian-descended people is a bad idea, because it won't work...

Why do you suppose that was?

...90% of the Dollar's purchasing power gone in 14 months? Sounds like this guy is having a fantasy. It's not impossible, but it'd take something on the order of a civil war to cause that.