King of the North

The President of Kazakhstan responded to the desire of the "United Russia" to take away the northern regions from the republic, indirectly accusing Russia of mass hunger of a hundred years ago

Kazakhstan left the New Year holidays a week earlier than Russia and immediately began to excite the agenda. In the main state newspaper Egemen Kazakhstan (Sovereign Kazakhstan), an article by the president of the country Kasym-Zhomart Tokayev, in which he first publicly commented on the statements of Russian deputies of United Russia, Vyacheslav Nikonov and Evgeny Fedorov, was published. Throughout December, their surnames were inclined in the republic in every way after Nikonov and Fedorov allowed themselves to doubt the original belonging of the northern lands of Kazakhstan.

Citizens of the neighboring republic perceived the words of not the most status politicians as an official expression of Moscow’s position and were so offended that they seriously proposed to bring a criminal case on Nikonov and Fedorov. At the official level, the republic was limited to a diplomatic note, but the deputies - specifically Fedorov - did not calm down, and even the Minister of Foreign Affairs of Kazakhstan Mukhtar Tleuberdi expressed his position: "Having a higher education, knowing the history of our homeland, I would answer this statement in Russian as follows - this is the nonsense of the blue mare."

Not the famous Lavrovsky “morons”, but for a Kazakh official of such a rank - extremely sharply.

Now the president of the country expressed an official position in relation to the scandal. In his article “Independence is the most expensive” Tokaev, calling Russian deputies “foreign figures”, called for officially opposing such provocations.

“I want to emphasize once again that we should be ready to protect national interests with the help of“ food ”and with the help of“ stone, ”Tokaev hinted unequivocally.

Moreover, the Kazakh president suddenly mentioned the hunger of 1921–1922. On the territory of Kazakhstan, which began due to the frankly inept and aggressive actions of the young Soviet power in the economy on employed lands in Central Asia. “If it were not for this event, our nation would be many times more than today, ” Tokaev said. - qualified specialists should conduct systematic research, and, accordingly, the state should evaluate the problem of hunger. This difficult issue needs to be approached with restraint and responsibly. ”

The article also mentions the need for an even deeper study by the inhabitants of the country of the Kazakh language and is given an actual order to re -systematize national history - including in order to create a short course and translate it into the necessary languages ​​for the same “foreign figures”. Finally, we can talk about the centuries -old history of Kazakhstan and the territorial affiliation of its lands through films on Netflix and HBO, the Kazakh Head of State directly says - apparently for those to whom textbooks are difficult to perceive.

It should be noted that Tokaev’s article was written extremely carefully. In addition, the material was released only in the Kazakh language version of the newspaper: “Kazakhstan Pravda”, in contrast to “Egemen Kazakhstan”, was limited only to news on the main theses of the article. This can indirectly indicate that the material is designed, first of all, for an internal consumer. President Tokaev, almost without hiding, flirting with the National-patriotic forces in the country, and after the scandal with Nikonov and Fedorov, it was necessary to reassure in a fire department. The anger of the National Patriots came to the point that they almost openly called for the Barcotes of the Khabar's main state television channel. On the air of the Big Week program, presenter Dmitry Oleinikov entered into a dispute with political scientist Maxim Shevchenko, who called Nikonov’s statements a continuation of “Putin’s policy” - as a result, the entire channel was called “chauvinistic”.

However, despite all the accuracy,

Tokayev's article is a painful poke of Moscow precisely because of the theme of hunger.

In recent years, Kazakhstanis are increasingly talking about Russia's responsibility for the crimes of the Soviet regime - she is an official successor, so it would be bad to admit her guilt and pay compensation. Moscow publicly does not comment on such statements, but this topic is certainly annoying. The Russian authorities were somehow able to come to terms with the fact that in Kazakhstan at the state level there is a day of memory of victims of political repression, but the topic of hunger is much more sensitive. True, before that, it was, as a rule, about the period of the Holodomor 1931–1933. (at least 1 million Kazakhs died, in Kazakh culture this period is called Asharshylyk). Tokaev recalled that there was another hunger - with a comparable number of victims: their exact number has not yet been established, but we are talking about hundreds of thousands of people.

And if earlier the Kazakh authorities themselves preferred not to raise the theme of hunger, then Tokaev took off the seal of silence. At his direction, all the research on the period 1921–1922 actually become the mainstream for the next two years: this means regular scientific conferences, articles in newspapers, public statements, television programs, documentaries, arts. All this through the efforts of the state propaganda will definitely fill out the socio-political agenda-for historical research in the same article Tokaev, part of the money of the state order is given-

And this is Jesuit revenge on Moscow for the long languages ​​of its politicians: they spoke out once, and they will have to listen to different accusations in response constantly.

Well, if Russian politicians continue to encroach on Kazakhstan independence even at the level of words, Kazakhstan has prepared several more topics for discussion. “This year turns 35 to the famous December events [in Alma-Ata]. In 1986, our sons and daughters, not afraid of the anger of the Soviet Union, took to the streets, defending the honor of the nation. The proclamation of our independence is exactly five years later symbolic. “At the same time, one should appreciate and systematically promote the human heroism of the first swallows of freedom - the heroes of December,” Tokaev wrote. The heroes openly opposed Moscow, by the way.