Soviet boundary-drawing deliberately created divided republics along civilizational lines

Evidence

Many former Soviet republics also bestride civilizational fault lines, in part because the Soviet government shaped boundaries so as to create divided republics, Russian Crimea going to Ukraine, Armenian Nagorno-Karabakh to Azerbaijan. — Samuel P. Huntington, The Clash of Civilizations and the…, 377

Categorization

• SEED: Angle: the map-making of empires as a legacy-loading device for post-imperial conflict — applicable to many post-colonial states beyond the USSR.