[prepend]

I can’t reply to comment under this that claimed that people in Moscow were from all across USSR so I’m replying here.

The Soviet Union was still ruled by Russians [0]… “ From 1919 until 1991, 89 members of the Politburo were Russians (which makes up 68 percent). In distant second were Ukrainians, who had 11 members in the Politburo, making up 8 percent. In third place are both ethnic Jews and Georgians, who had 4 members respectively.”

It was less than the population since by population , 80% are Russian [1], but still shows that the USSR was ruled by Russians.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Politburo_of_the_Communist_Par...

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soviet_Census_(1989)

[myth_drannon]

Well everyone was "Russian" officially. Khrushov was Ukrainian, same can be said with Gorbachev. Many Armenians. There is a concentrated effort to erase all the contributions of other nations of USSR and make Russians as the only builders and inheritors. And this is different from Tsarist Russia where very few non-Russains were allowed to rise in the ranks. That's why large part of Communist movement was comprised from minorities since they were the ones who suffered more from the brutal Tsarist regime.

[philistine]

The fact that political stars could rise to the top does not negate the point that the main ethnical actor and benefactor of the Soviet Union were the Russians. Those star Ukrainians had to please the Russians first and foremost.

It's the same thing in Communist China. Nobody can displease the Han.

[BurningFrog]

Not sure those numbers matter, since Stalin had the only vote that mattered 1924-1953.

And he happened to be Georgian.

[lazide]

Also, the label Moscovite doesn't require being born there!

And Moscovite is indeed a bad word in many parts of the old Union.