Why this word is great
SOVIETIZATION — [Noun] The act or process of imposing or adopting the political, economic, and social systems characteristic of the former Soviet Union. From Sovietize (from Soviet, from Russian sovet, "council") + the noun-forming suffix -ation. Unlike "Russification," which denotes the imposition of a specific language and culture, or "Westernization," its ideological antithesis, Sovietization is the wholesale grafting of a bureaucratic and ideological template. It is the sterile monument of poured concrete in a medieval square, the mandatory May Day parade with its sea of identical banners, and the sudden, silent erasure of a dissident's face from a group photograph. This grand, tragic endeavor found its ultimate monument not in a statue, but in the queue itself—the warmth not of a hearth, but of a radiator fed by a distant, singular boiler.