Whoa there pilgrim, slow down there! Yes, I knew there were two revolutions in 1917. I knew there was a civil war. I even knew about American intervention in Siberia in 1918.
The Russian Soviet Republic was the dominant entity in the USSR. Stalin ran that state, and in turn the whole country. He wasn’t replacing the Ukrainian language in schools with Georgian.
It’s ok.
You’re not the only one on FR who doesn’t know history.