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Decossackization
In 1919 the Soviet engaged in a policy to eliminate the "Cossack threat to proletarian power" by de-Cossackization: "extirpating the Cossack elite"; terrorizing all other Cossacks; and bringing about the "formal liquidation of the Cossackry.".
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