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If WW1 doesnt happned and there's just more years of uneasy peace, what do you think will happened to the demographics of Russia? Will the Belyorussians and the Ukrainians (especially in the East) be absorbed into Russian language and culture? according to Wikipedia (not the most reliable but...) the Russian empire lossed 3,311,000 in WW1, 13 million in the Civil War with over 1 million refugees leaving Russian permantly and 27 million deaths in WW2. This means that without these, the Empire would have around 43 million more people and on top of that all the people killed or expelled by the Soviets. Most of these would be Russian, Belyorussian or Ukrainian so can we see the small minorities being swamped over time?

Whats your thoughts on this?
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