| ID | Name |
|---|---|
| T0117.001 | Migratory Replacement |
| T0117.002 | Encouragement of Mixed Marriages |
As part of demographic assimilation, aggressors may use administrative, economic, and ideological incentives to encourage marital unions between members of the indigenous people and settlers from the metropole. Deliberate promotion of mixed marriages accelerates the erosion of the local population's national identity, since subsequent generations in such families are, as a rule, raised in the linguistic and cultural paradigm of the dominant colonizing state.
The use of demographic engineering to accelerate assimilation. Moscow openly proclaimed a course toward erasing ethnic boundaries by encouraging marriages with Great Russians: "to unite the Little Russian people with the Great Russian people by all measures and means... through matrimony and other conduct..."[1].
Targeted demographic assimilation under Anna's secret decree of January 31, 1734 to governor Shakhovskoy: "that you with your skill, secretly and quietly, take special pains to divert the Little Russians from kinship… and to encourage them and skillfully bring them into kinship with… the Great Russian people"[2].