Aggressors may deliberately destroy or isolate the self-sufficient sectors of the colonized society's economy, replacing them with subsidies or critical supplies from the metropole. Artificially turning the region into a subsidized periphery critically dependent on the colonizer's external financing, energy resources, or export markets deprives the local population of the material base for political independence and makes organized protest economically impossible.
The metropole's administration did not pay for forced labor and withheld food provisions for five years: a memorandum from the Posolsky Prikaz (Ambassadorial Office) to the Prikaz of the Kazan Palace records a complaint that the subordinate Okochans of Tersky Town «were not given the sovereign's grain allowance for the past years — for the 125th, and the 126th, and the 127th, and the 128th, and the 129th year»[1].