Cultural Assimilation

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.

ID: T0115
Sub-techniques:  T0115.001, T0115.002, T0115.003
Tactic: Persistence
People: Ukrainians
Version: 1.0
Created: 21 April 2026
Last Modified: 21 April 2026

Procedure Examples

ID Name Description
C0051 Ban on Culture and the Press Before World War I (1913–1914)

A ban on attending cultural events: «The trustee of the Kyiv educational district issued an instruction forbidding pupils and students from attending Ukrainian theater performances»[1].

S0009 Diplomacy

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"[2].

S0008 Government

A secret instruction from the monarch on the complete cultural digestion of the local population: "so that they become Russified and stop looking to the forest like wolves"[3].

S0008 Government

A ban on attending cultural events: «The trustee of the Kyiv educational district issued an instruction forbidding pupils and students from attending Ukrainian theater performances»[1].

C0007 Kolomak Articles (1687)

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"[2].

C0030 Liquidation of the Institution of the Hetmancy and the Second Little Russian Collegium (1764)

A secret instruction from the monarch on the complete cultural digestion of the local population: "so that they become Russified and stop looking to the forest like wolves"[3].

G0009 Russian Empire

A secret instruction from the monarch on the complete cultural digestion of the local population: "so that they become Russified and stop looking to the forest like wolves"[3].

G0009 Russian Empire

A ban on attending cultural events: «The trustee of the Kyiv educational district issued an instruction forbidding pupils and students from attending Ukrainian theater performances»[1].

G0008 Tsardom of Muscovy

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"[2].

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