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In december of one nine hundred twenty one issued a decree in the form of an ultimatum. all russians living outside of the country were called upon to recognize the new regime and had three months in which to register at a soviet consulate if they failed to do so by this deadline their citizenship would be revoked one and a half million russians ignored this ultimatum and consequently became state less. the bolshevik government s wholesale and collective disenfranchisement of millions was completely unprecedented with a simple decree a stroke of a pen people s worlds fell apart. piece couldn t. because russians who weren t living in russia were no longer russian ....
Because russians who weren t living in russia were no longer russian citizens they now had no nationality at all finding themselves in a legal vacuum that raised the question who are they then they were stateless and that wasn t just a fact but also a legal issue. so some thought had to be given to introducing a system to care for those who no longer benefited from the protection of any state of being he he did a political can only not and efficiently refugees we re now seen as people without nationality who no longer had a country of origin and so were anomalies in the context of international law you can t honestly not only. at this time when new nation states were arising out of the ashes of empires the first thing that these new states did was to introduce border controls from soon visit up. ....
At a soviet consulate if they failed to do so by this deadline their citizenship would be revoked one and a half million russians ignored this ultimatum and consequently became stateless. the bolshevik government s wholesale and collective disenfranchisement of millions was completely unprecedented with a simple decree a stroke of a pen people s worlds fell apart. piece couldn t. because russians who weren t living in russia were no longer russian citizens they now had no nationality at all finding themselves in a legal vacuum that raised the question who are they then they were stateless and that wasn t just a fact but also a legal issue. so some thought had to be given to introducing ....