Igor Aidman: "Udmurt Jan Pajah"

"The Udmurt scientist Albert Razin, who had signed a previously open letter of protest against the adoption of the bill on the cancellation of the mandatory study of the national languages ​​of the Russian peoples in schools, performed self -immolation . He was a well -deserved figure in the science of Udmurtia, the director of the Udmu State State University and an activist of the Udmurt Movement for the preservation of the language. Earlier, the scientist stood in the picket of the State Council of the Republic with a poster: “And if my tongue disappears tomorrow, then I'm ready to die today,” the sociologist writes on his Facebook page.

"Under Putin, the Kremlin resumed the Russian Empire policy policy. In practice, the adopted law means that the possibilities for the voluntary study of the native national language in schools will be significantly limited. This outrages the residents and the national intelligentsia of most republics. But the Putin authorities are not going to stop. They need unification and Russification of regions. They want to take control and tame national self -awareness and taming national self -awareness and tinning Culture of the peoples of Russia.

Everyone should become faceless "Russians" who speak the language of the Empire, to consider it to be its homeland, and the ruler - the father of the family. The exception is the Kadyrovskaya Chechnya. Kadyrov, in exchange for the right service, is allowed (for the time being) to maintain a certain autonomy and be an omnipotent satrap of his province. But, I think, unification and Russification will get there.

Even during the Gorbachev perestroika, the writer Kamil Ikramov warned: “The idealization of tsarism, which now and then floats into the light, is not nostalgic in nature. It is not aimed back, but forward, at our future. But today the first clashes are seen, where, on the one hand, the great -power shovinism and the dream of the patriarchal structure of society, and on the other, are the traditions of our democrats based on the traditions of our democrats based on respect for human and national dignity, to the ideas, for opinions, religion and national problems.

Now this anti -utopia has been implemented. In power, supporters simultaneously tsarism and Stalinism, great -power chauvinism and the patriarchal structure of society. Naturally, they are enemies of national cultures of the conquered peoples, supporters of their Russification and closer integration into a single empire.

I'm afraid the offensive on the remains of the cultural autonomy of the national republics will continue. And even today's tragedy will not be able to stop her, as the self -immolation of Jan Palach could not stop the Soviet invasion of Czechoslovakia. "