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Sovietization is term that may be used with two distinct (but related) meanings:

the adoption of a political system based on the model of soviets (workers' councils). A soviet (сове́т, "council" originally was a workers' local council in late Imperial Russia.
the adoption of a way of life and mentality modelled after the Soviet Union. The Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR was a constitutionally Socialist state that existed in Eurasia from 1922 to 1991

The term was one of numerous "-ation" buzzwords in Soviet phraseology, along with electrification, collectivization, korenizatsiya, etc. GOELRO plan ( Russian: план ГОЭЛРО was the first-ever Soviet plan for national economic recovery and development Collectivization in the Soviet Union was a policy pursued under Stalin, between 1928 and 1940(much later for areas further away from capital to consolidate individual Korenizatsiya (коренизация sometimes also called korenization, meaning "nativization" or "indigenization" literally "putting down roots"

A notable wave of Sovietization (in the second meaning) occurred during and after World War II in Eastern Europe. World War II, or the Second World War, (often abbreviated WWII) was a global military conflict which involved a majority of the world's nations, including Eastern Europe is a general term that refers to the Geopolitical region encompassing the easternmost part of the European continent. In a broad sense, this included (mostly not voluntary) adoption of Soviet-like institutions, laws, customs, traditions and the Soviet way of life, both on a national level and in smaller communities. This was usually promoted and speeded up by propaganda aimed at creating a common way of life in all states within the Soviet sphere of influence. Propaganda is a concerted set of messages aimed at influencing the opinions or behaviors of large numbers of people In many cases, Sovietization was also accompanied by forced resettlement of large categories of "class enemies" (kulaks, or osadniks, for instance) to the Gulag labor camps and exile settlements. The term enemy of the people is a fluid designation of political or class opponents of the group using the term Kulaks ( Russian: кула́к kulak " Fist ", by extension "tight-fisted" were a category of rich Peasants in later Osadniks (osadnik/osadnicy "settler/settlers" was the Polish Loanword used in Soviet Union for Veterans of the Polish Army that were The Gulag was the government agency that administered the penal labor camps of the Soviet Union. A labor camp is a simplified detention facility where inmates are engaged in Penal labor. Forced settlements in the Soviet Union took several forms Though the most notorious was the Gulag Labor camp system of Penal labor, resettling of entire ^[1]

In a narrow sense, the term Sovietization is often applied to mental and social changes within the population of the Soviet Union and its satellites^[2] which led to creation of the new Soviet man (according to its supporters) or Homo Sovieticus (according to its critics). The New Soviet man or New Soviet person (новый советский человек as postulated by the ideologists of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union Homo Sovieticus (pseudo Latin for "Soviet Man (human" is a sarcastic and critical reference to a category of people with a specific mindset that were allegedly ^[3]

Most recently the term "Sovietization" is applied in a derogatory sense to processes in Russia under Putin, with various authors putting various, often mutually contradictory, meanings in the word referring to various attributes of the former Soviet Union. Words and phrases are pejorative if they imply disapproval or contempt Russia (Россия Rossiya) or the Russian Federation ( Rossiyskaya Federatsiya) is a transcontinental Country extending Vladimir Vladimirovich Putin (; born 7 October 1952 in Leningrad, USSR; now Saint Petersburg, Russia was the second President of Russia

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^ various authors (2001). "Stalinist Forced Relocation Policies", in Myron Weiner, Sharon Stanton Russell: Demography and National Security. Berghahn Books, 308-315. ISBN 1-57181-339-X.
^ (Polish) Józef Tischner (2005). Józef Stanisław Tischner ( March 12, 1931 – June 28, 2000) was an eminent Polish Priest and Philosopher. Etyka solidarności oraz Homo sovieticus. Kraków: Znak, 295. ISBN 83-240-0588-9.
^ Aleksandr Zinovyev (1986). Aleksandr Aleksandrovich Zinovyev (Алекса́ндр Алекса́ндрович Зино́вьев October 29 1922 &ndash May 10 2006 was a well-known Russian logician Homo sovieticus. Grove/Atlantic. ISBN 0-87113-080-7.

Edward J. O'Boyle (January 1993). "Work Habits and Customer Service in Post-Communist Poland". International Journal of Social Economics 20 (1).

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