I wonder how some of those Asian tribes managed to hold onto their lifestyles throughout the Soviet era. Even the Mongolians, how is it they’re left alone by the Chicoms? I thought they were all rounded up and forced to integrate. But if they were able to stay a step ahead of the commies I’m thinking it might be time to invest in a yurt.
The Soviet regime used the same phony diversity crap in its propaganda, and of course divided the USSR along ethnic lines for administrative purposes. Also, some of those areas are so remote that there’s not much need for or economic justification for much of a gov’t presence.