Demographic Assimilation: Encouragement of Mixed Marriages

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.

ID: T0117.002
Sub-technique of:  T0117
Tactic: Persistence
People: Ukrainians
Version: 1.0
Created: 21 April 2026
Last Modified: 21 April 2026

Procedure Examples

ID Name Description
S0009 Diplomacy

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].

S0008 Government

Targeted demographic assimilation: "a secret decree of Empress Anna Ioannovna to the ruler of Ukraine, Prince Aleksei Shakhovskoy," which prescribed "to induce them and skillfully encourage their marriages with Great Russians"[2].

C0007 Kolomak Articles (1687)

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].

G0009 Russian Empire

Targeted demographic assimilation: "a secret decree of Empress Anna Ioannovna to the ruler of Ukraine, Prince Aleksei Shakhovskoy," which prescribed "to induce them and skillfully encourage their marriages with Great Russians"[2].

C0029 The Governing Council of the Hetman Government and the Lubny Treaty (1734–1750)

Targeted demographic assimilation: "a secret decree of Empress Anna Ioannovna to the ruler of Ukraine, Prince Aleksei Shakhovskoy," which prescribed "to induce them and skillfully encourage their marriages with Great Russians"[2].

G0008 Tsardom of Muscovy

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].

References

  1. Татьяна Таирова-Яковлева. (2011). ИВАН МАЗЕПА И РОССИЙСКАЯ ИМПЕРИЯ ИСТОРИЯ «ПРЕДАТЕЛЬСТВА».