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The employers complained that the union wanted to "sovietize" the waterfront.

At the same time Soviet authorities tried to change and sovietize the traditional life of the Svan people.

A large portion of the wave of new migrants to industrialize, integrate and Sovietize the recently acquired western Ukrainian territories were ethnic Russians who mostly settled around industrial centers and military garrisons.

According to Anders Åslund (in October 2012) Tabachnyk "could hardly care less about the real problems in Ukrainian education" but instead "His endeavor to sovietize Ukrainian historiography and promote russification attracts most attention".

In several documents there is talk of taking advantage of inter-ethnic conflicts by state organs (in the trans-Caucasus; on attempts to 'sovietize' Lithuania, Hungary, Czech, Romania; on combating separatism in Karelia through executions and so forth).

Originally, Stalin wanted to Sovietize all of Germany, but when the West resisted this idea, he tried to work for a united Germany which would be neutral, but when the West again said no he decided to build a new country out of the Soviet occupation zone.

At the heart of the issue is the annexation of Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania by the Soviet Union in 1940 and the subsequent immigration of hundreds of thousands of Russians and other non-Balts as part of Moscow's plan to sovietize the republics.

In Bucharest he communicated, either directly or through Gheorghe Pintilie, with General Dmitri Fedichkin, a Soviet adviser who gave him orders to infiltrate and Sovietize the security services: Siguranţa Statului, Jandarmeria and Serviciul Special de Informaţii.