Even today, countries like France enact policies in order to suppress or exterminate languages that don't benefit the state. [1] When do you think Canada stopped trying to force its indigenous cultures into extinction? [2] Communism is not some essentially more evil ideology than the ideologies it competed with. Far more than ideology, the material interests of the ruling classes in all nations is what drives social and economic policy.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vergonha

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canadian_Indian_residential_sc...