moscow and saint petersburg were and will always be the richest part of russia due to history. what i meant is that since even lenin's days before stalin officially took over, the bolsheviks were pandering to all of their vassals. they gave donbas and crimea to hohols and hohols were too powerful in moscow's decisions even during stalin's time, the russians were treating the balts as if the russians were their vassals not vice versa, in fact i guess that georgia wasn't very lucky despite being the homeland of stalin, ordzhonikidze and beria and they fucked it big time once after the civil war to quell the insurgencies and then again in 1930s during the purges.
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