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Industrial architect ALBERT KAHN from Detroit - industrialization of Russia Albert Kahn was a consulting architects to the Soviet Government. The company played a major role in laying the foundation of the Soviet automotive, tractor, and tank industry and led to the development of Soviet defense capabilities. The Soviet arsenal became a major factor in the defeat of Germany.

The population of the Soviet Union consisted of more than 50% Non-Russians and thereby ethnic minorities, millions and millions: Jews, Volga Germans, Ukrainians, Poles, Belorussions, Chechens, Tatars, Dagestani, Azeri, Georgians, Armenians, Abkhaz, Komi, Mari, Mordvin, Karelians, Bashkirs, Buryats, Nenets, Tuvans, Jakuts, Chukchens, Kazakhs, Turkmen, Uzbek, Kirgiz, Tadjiks, Ossetians, Ingush, Koreans, Karelians, Kalmyks, Lithuanians, Estonians, Latvians (even before the Molotov-Ribbentrop-Pact there were many in Soviet Russia), Moldawians (Romanians), Gypsies, Bulgarians, Kalmyks, Old Believers, Mennonites, even some Greek and Italians on the Black Sea.