There are some topics that continue to fascinate me as a serious reading interest. The treatment meted out to indigenous people by the then communist Russia is one such.

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Today I was reading this paper:

"The Representation of the Evenkis and the Evenki Culture by a Local Community Museum - Svetlana Huusko"

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These lines left a strong imprint. This is the story of so many cultures.

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"According to the official Soviet view, the Siberian indigenous
populations were culturally, socially, and economically primitive
(Bashkuev 2013; Kozlov et al. 2007; Slezkine 1994)..."

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"It was crucial to overcome such primitiveness and lift the Evenkis and their indigenous neighbors from timelessness and being “traditional” and bring them into history, or Marx’s historical scale so that they would develop (Grant 1993)..."

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