In the 20th, the divide-and-rule tactics of the Stalin era involved weakening resistance by splitting related groups and joining unrelated ones in shared administrative units.
Its roots date back to the Stalin era, when the government built a 525-mile pipeline to bring gas from Saratov in the south to Moscow.
Though he is ethnically Chechen, Anzor Tsarnaev grew up in the former Soviet republic of Kyrgyzstan because his parents were deported there in the Stalin era alongside many other ethnic Chechens.
The father also sketched out a bit of the family history: Though he is an ethnic Chechen, Mr. Tsarnaev grew up in Kyrgyzstan because his parents were sent there under a mass deportation of Chechens during the Stalin era.
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His father built North Korea on the centralized economic principles of the Stalin-era Soviet Union and the extreme-nationalis t politics of 1930s fascist Japan.
In Soviet times the Primorye region was an important military outpost, a centre of the fishing industry and the site of many Stalin-era labour camps (many prisoners settled in the region after their release).
Someone, from a PR perspective, was smart enough at the last minute to leave this relic of Stalin-era five-year planning out of the speech.
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This is a huge Stalin-era park to the north of the city where a series of pavilions and outdoor sculptures commemorate the 15 constituent republics of the USS R and their creative and technological achievements.
And the national parliament was moved out of its Stalin-era stone fortress, adorned with Soviet frescoes of happy socialist workers, into a modernist glass dome.
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Instead of the sounds of Glinka now marking occasions of state, they want to reawaken Russian souls with the anthem by Alexandrov, a Soviet-era musician, which Stalin introduced in 1944.
Soviet authorities found it hard enough to explain Stalin-era crimes convincingly, even with complete control over the media and the secret documents safely locked away in a Kremlin safe.
They regard the term "foreign agents" as insulting, saying it harks back to Stalin-era purges.
The central Russian region of Mordovia Mr Depardieu will call home is known for its Stalin-era prison camps.
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