Indigenous people forced to assimilate into Western colonial society: bad
Indigenous people forced to assimilate into Soviet colonial society: good
Ok champ.
Yep. Nothing reduced infant mortality in indigenous populations of Russia as efficiently as mass deportations and killing of indigenous adults. No children were born - none died prematurely - problem solved!
ah interesting, so western colonies must have had a negative effect on population, and communist / eastern ones must have had a positive effect on population?