"The policy of assimilation is absolutely excluded from the
arsenal of Marxism-Leninism, as being an anti-popular and
counter-revolutionary policy, a fatal policy."

J. Stalin, March 18, 1929, "The National Question 
and Leninism: Reply to Comrades Meshkov, 
Kovalchuk, and Others" <I>Works</I> Vol. 11
(Moscow: Foreign Languages Publishing House, 1954)