In the Stalin times, yes. But the policy in the early Soviet Union was in fact opposite: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Korenizatsiia https://en.wikipedia.org/

In the Stalin times, yes. But the policy in the early Soviet Union was in fact opposite: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Korenizatsiia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Korenizatsiia