Why Did Stalin Do Russification?

Why Did Stalin Do Russification? Before and during World War II, Joseph Stalin deported to Central Asia and Siberia several entire nationalities for their suspected collaboration with the German invaders: Volga Germans, Crimean Tatars, Chechens, Ingush, Balkars, Kalmyks, and others. Why did Stalin use Russification? One of the devices Stalin used to “protect” Belorussia (and