De-Cossackization

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De-Cossackization (Russian: Расказачивание, romanized: Raskazachivaniye; Ukrainian: Розкозачення, romanized: Rozkozachennja) was the Bolshevik policy of systematic repression against the Cossacks in territories of the former Russian Empire between 1919 and 1933, especially the Don and Kuban Cossacks in Russia, aimed at the elimination of the Cossacks as a distinct collectivity by exterminating the Cossack élite, coercing all other Cossacks into compliance, and eliminating Cossack distinctness.

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