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Economic repression and their causal policies was the root cause of millions of deaths, often through delegating all power and thought to the state, who engaged in mass collectivization of all property and resources, and, in futile attempts to stimulate production, caused multiple man-made
205:, in which he and the state sought to deter any and all political opponents and "undesirables". The latter term was limited not just to undesirable thought, but undesirable ethnic groups and minorities residing, often unwillingly, in the Soviet Union, who were commonly referred to as " 209:". The state engaged in numerous deportations and transfers of these groups, often on the scale of entire nationalities. Other groups were forcefully migrated in the opposite direction in an effort to replaced those affected by mass 216:
Political repression by the state saw the uprising of multiple rebellions, often crushed with overwhelming force and repression, though these rebellions and revolutions are what ultimately led to the Union's
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Ideological repression by the state and their correlating policies engaged in efforts to shape the
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Political repression was enacted by the Soviet Union, especially during the rule of
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class experienced some form of repression from the state, stemming back to the
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of literature, film, images, and general control over information.
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of the people, while simultaneously deterring any unconforming
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was an ongoing characteristic of the state throughout the
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