What If more languages switched to Cyrillic under the Soviet Union.

Under the Soviet Union a lot of languages had switched to Cyrillic alphabet (Azeri, Romanian,Tatar and so on), what if all langauges had been forced to switch to Cyrillic that is Armenian,Georgian,Finnish in Soviet Karelia, Lithuanian, Latvian and Estonian would this have any impact or would they just switch back to Latin or their autochthonous alphabets after the collapse of the USSR?
 
Most likely switch to their alphabets following indepedence--cyrillic would likely be a symbol of Russian domination to them. I actually think this was an issue in one ex-SSR--Moldavia, or something like that.
 
Most likely switch to their alphabets following indepedence--cyrillic would likely be a symbol of Russian domination to them. I actually think this was an issue in one ex-SSR--Moldavia, or something like that.

Actually in more than one, Azerbaijan,Moldavia,Uzbekistan and Turkmenistan switched to latin after the fall, and Kazakhstan is considering to do so.
 
Perhaps there is a compromise for those languages that Moscow forcibly flipped to Cyrillic during the Soviet era. That is, if these language speakers do not view Cyrillic as a vestige of Soviet domination.

Why not have a situation similar to Serbo-Croatian, where both Latin and Cyrillic alphabets are used simultaneously? I suspect that I might start a flame war with this, since from what I understand Serbs and Croats probably think their languages are different in large part because the Serbs use Cyrillic and the Croats use the Latin alphabet. Still, the languages can be expressed easily in either alphabet.

I have always wondered why Polish has never been written in Cyrillic. Perhaps this is the result of a strong Roman Catholic influence and the Latin language. Polish, in my view, would be better suited to Cyrillic than using a heavily modified Latin alphabet, but history dictates otherwise. Perhaps before converting, various language speakers should think hard about which alphabet truly fits the language, rather than ditching Cyrillic simply for political reasons.
 
Why not have a situation similar to Serbo-Croatian, where both Latin and Cyrillic alphabets are used simultaneously? I suspect that I might start a flame war with this, since from what I understand Serbs and Croats probably think their languages are different in large part because the Serbs use Cyrillic and the Croats use the Latin alphabet. Still, the languages can be expressed easily in either alphabet.
Serbs use the Latin alphabet too, along with the Cyrillic. But they never were forced to use it exclusively, so it never was symbol of foreign domination.
I have always wondered why Polish has never been written in Cyrillic. Perhaps this is the result of a strong Roman Catholic influence and the Latin language. Polish, in my view, would be better suited to Cyrillic than using a heavily modified Latin alphabet, but history dictates otherwise. Perhaps before converting, various language speakers should think hard about which alphabet truly fits the language, rather than ditching Cyrillic simply for political reasons.
Actually, Polish was written in Cyrillic. In 1860-ies Russian administration introduced Cyrillic-printed (but Polish-language) textbooks for the Polish primary schools (including even the textbook of the Catholic religion). But this was perceived by the Poles as first step towards Russification, and by the more nationalist Russians as unnecessary concession to enemy. So, idea of Polish Cyrillic was abandoned, and from the 1870-ies the Poles were forced to learn from the Russian-language textbooks. Of course, they created underground Polish-language (and Latin-alphabet) schools in the response.
 
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I have always wondered why Polish has never been written in Cyrillic. Perhaps this is the result of a strong Roman Catholic influence and the Latin language. Polish, in my view, would be better suited to Cyrillic than using a heavily modified Latin alphabet, but history dictates otherwise. Perhaps before converting, various language speakers should think hard about which alphabet truly fits the language, rather than ditching Cyrillic simply for political reasons.

Definitely - there's a very close relationship between religion and script, with Protestant or Catholic nations using Latin, and Orthodox nations using Cyrillic (or Greek, which is the precursor to Cyrillic). The Bosnians at one time used an Arabic-derived script alongside Latin, but it was scrapped in the early 20th century.
 
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