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Cyrillisation in the Soviet Union
Move from Latin scripts to Cyrillic / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
In the USSR, cyrillisation or cyrillization (Russian: Кириллиза́ция, romanized: kirillizatsiya) was the name of the campaign from the late 1930s to the 1950s which aimed to replace the writing system based on Latin script (draft of a common alphabet also knowing as Yanalif and Unified Northern Alphabet, which was introduced during the previous latinization program), to one based on Cyrillic.
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