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Since the time of Stalin, the Soviet leadership has been convinced that not so much class or ideological solidarity as linguistic assimilation is the most appropriate way to integrate the peoples of the USSR into a single community. Since the mid-30s, a huge number of Soviet citizens of non-Russian nationality acquired modern education in Russian and made a professional career in the Russian-speaking environment. Russian Russians, however, because of this, they did not begin to consider themselves Russians by nationality, even though they called the Russian language "native". By tightly controlling the sphere of national life, the communist party is obviously beginning to feel that it cannot continue to tolerate excessive manifestations of Russian nationalism, since it can provoke a response from non-Russians.