On March 24, 2004 Literaturnaya Gazeta published an article by Gennady Russkikh about the Chinese threat in the Far East. The author tries to justify the growth of anti-Chinese sentiment in Russian society. His claims are different - from low-quality consumer goods to a hypothetical military threat: "The reason for unleashing a military conflict may be the autonomy that the Chinese will demand when their numbers in Siberia and the Far East exceed the number of the indigenous population. Further - more. Who knows, maybe, and the war will have to be waged in conditions of overwhelming numerical superiority of the enemy and, most likely, in the presence of a "fifth column" in the rear - the Chinese diaspora and supporters of the communist idea " .

However, not only the Chinese get it in this article. Here, for example, is how the author describes the Soviet colonization of the Far East: * "And since the 50s of the past century, envoys of all the peoples of the Russian Empire poured here, to the great construction sites, but for the most part, of course, three fraternal ones - Russians, Belarusians and Ukrainians They lived, rubbed each other, not particularly bothering themselves with the problems of purity of blood, burr or curlyness. They married without looking closely at the color of the skin. They called themselves Siberians with dignity, even with pride, somehow indifferently referring to the concept of "Soviet man".

True, for some reason, representatives of the Central Asian and Caucasian peoples did not really like these places. If anything they settled down, it was the markets" * .

Sources

Russian Gennady. Chinese charter // Literary newspaper. 2004. March 24-30.

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