The second decree echoed the first but extended the ban on Ukrainization further, to the Far East, Kazakhstan, Central Asia, the Central Black Earth province and “other areas of the USSR” that might have been infected with Ukrainian nationalism. The Soviet government issued this supplement in order to “condemn the suggestions made by individual Ukrainian comrades about the mandatory Ukrainization of entire areas of the USSR” and to authorize an immediate halt to any Ukrainization anywhere. The regions named were ordered to stop printing Ukrainian newspapers and books immediately, and to impose
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