abstract
| - The Uralic Purges is a term used to refer to a period of extreme oppression of Uralic peoples dating from mid-March to early May of 2007, mainly during Great War III. Although the name might suggest a Holocaust-like genocide, the death toll was only just into the hundreds of thousands, although the number of people that became displaced as a result was over ten million. The Uralic peoples had lived in the areas constituting the Russian Empire for centuries, as their Urheimat is located in the Ural Mountain area. However, over the years, Russians have attempted to assert their dominance over these people, leading to persecution. Before the Cataclysm, the worst persecution was centred in two areas - the historical states of Mari El and Mordovia - with tensions being existent but not particularly bad in most other Uralic areas. The Cataclysm put a temporary end to this persecution, however ethnic tensions flared up again once extremist organisations began springing up again. It would come to a head during Great War III, where several Uralic groups supported The Initiative and were deemed untrustworthy by Russian extremist groups as a result.
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