And you seem to be mistaking Russia for The Soviet Union.

So true. Russian was merely the common language. There was an unjust Russification process in the Baltics but for the most part it’s preposterous to equate the USSR with Russians.

From the ethnic make-up of the Cheka in the early days to the non-Russians who headed the Communist Party from 1924 until about 1984 other nationalities that now claim to have been anti-Soviet all along were overrepresented among the Soviet ruling class. Solzhenitsyn also wrote of Russian prisoners in the Gulag with non-Russian camp commanders.