Russia

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• Tsarist conquest and tribute (yasak) systems across the Caucasus, Central Asia, Siberia, and Alaska
• Serf labor bound to the land underwriting imperial expansion until emancipation in 1861
• Soviet extraction of grain, oil, and minerals from peripheral republics into the Russian core
• Russification and settler administration used as demographic engineering across occupied nations
• Post-1991 energy transit and pricing leverage weaponized against dependent neighbors
• Gulag forced labor developing mines, canals, and cities across the north and east

• Holodomor and engineered famines under Stalinist grain requisition
• Circassian genocide and expulsion during the nineteenth-century Caucasus conquest
• Deportations of Chechens, Crimean Tatars, Volga Germans, Kalmyks, and others
• Great Terror executions and Gulag mortality at industrial scale
• Katyn massacre of Polish officers and elites (1940)
• Chechen wars and the present targeting, filtration, and deportation of Ukrainian civilians

• Anti-fascist rhetoric wrapping domestic repression and censorship
• Multipolarity slogans while enforcing rigid hierarchy over the near abroad
• Denazification framing used to justify annexation and territorial revision
• Resource wealth captured by an oligarchy insulated from any accountability
• Orthodox civilizational branding alongside contract killings and mercenary networks

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