Financial Incentives for Assimilators

Aggressors may institute, at the state level, a system of special allowances, increased salaries, and bonuses for the military and bureaucratic apparatus for the successful implementation of denationalization policy in colonized regions. This technique is used to consolidate power. Direct economic bribery of its own officialdom allows the colonizer to motivate the lower-level apparatus toward a more aggressive and proactive displacement of the language, culture, and institutions of the indigenous people.

ID: T0130
Sub-techniques:  No sub-techniques
Tactic: Persistence
People: Ukrainians
Contributors: decolonial.ist project
Version: 1.1
Created: 21 April 2026
Last Modified: 9 August 2026

Procedures Carried Out


January 1862
C0046 The Valuev Circular: Ban on the Language and Schools (1862–1869)
G0009 Russian Empire
S0008 Government

The introduction of bonuses for the policy of denationalization: by decrees of the tsarist administration of 1869 and 1886, officials "in the ten South-Western governorates - persons of Russian origin, excluding, however, local natives" - were assigned bonuses for successes in the Russification of Ukraine[1] - part of the authorities' systematic plans to strengthen the "Russian assimilatory potential" of the Western krai after the Polish uprising of 1863, which included material benefits for Russian officials and teachers[2].

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