Aggressors may apply comprehensive measures to displace and replace the unique cultural codes of the Indigenous people with the standards and traditions of the metropole. The artificial dissolution of the local culture within the aggressor's dominant culture makes it possible to sever historical continuity, deprive the colonized society of its national identity, and ensure its irreversible mental merger with the colonizing state.
The Tsardom of Muscovy enshrined in state documents its course toward the complete absorption of the region: "Prince Vasily declared in the articles the beginning of the process of Russification"[1].
The monarch's secret instruction on the cultural digestion of the land: "Little Russia, Livonia, and Finland are provinces governed by the privileges confirmed to them… These provinces, as well as Smolensk, must by the easiest means be brought to the point where they become Russified and cease looking to the forest like wolves"[2].