Stolen strategy to strengthen the Soviet union and solve the nationality question was to support the autonomy of the Belarusian and Ukrainian nations by promoting independent cultural growth of each nation respectively via enhancing linguistic education as well as linguistic institutions such as newspapers. Additionally, Stalin insured more ethnic Ukrainians and ethnic Belarusian‘s were involved in politics, thus giving them skin in the game. Although the strategies saw great success on paper the language spoken among the working class in both Ukraine and Belarus were still primarily Russian. Part of the goal and nationalizing Belarus, was a foreign policy defense against Poland trying to take more Belarusian land, and trying to force pull in and the rest of the world to identify Belarus is an independent nation. It should also be noted that part of Stalin‘s motivation for indigenization was to win the loyalty and support of politically influential non-ethnic Russians to help Stalin beat out his political rivals within the Bolshevik party.
