‘People Begin To Realize Moscow Is Our Main Problem’

[Smaland]

This is a photo of "Artur (Ibrahim) Zaripov", an activist in Bashkortostan. Zaripov was interviewed by charter97.org, and the photo and preceding quotation were both posted at the article linked to below. He talks about the Russification of Bashkortostan, and excerpts from the interview appear below.

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The (Bashkir) language is on the verge of extinction. Another 30 years of this kind of policy, and our language will no longer remain. In the 1930s, it was translated from Arabic script to Cyrillic. As a result, we lost great works of our scientific literature and poetry. Because of Soviet policy, our entire base disappeared.
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As for history, here too we are subject to complete Russification. After all, as I already said, we lost the books. It turns out that people from the USSR already told us who the Bashkirs were.

When I was at school, we were taught the history of Russia, in which it was written that, for example, our national hero Salavat Yulaev (protesters recently came to his monument in Ufa) is a 'bandit', an 'extremist', who went against the tsar and so on. At the same time, I took lessons in the history of Bashkortostan, where they told me that he was our national hero. Our central street is named after him and he fought for the freedom of Bashkortostan.
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In the Urals, Bashkortostan ranks first in terms of deaths in Ukraine. A lot of families receive the 'cargo 200'.
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With this war, Putin is pursuing not only his own interests outside the Russian Federation. In this way, he destroys the potential of nationalities so that they do not rebel in the future.

[Question from the interviewer:] Is the idea of secession from Russia popular in Bashkortostan?

Now it has become more relevant. I won't lie, our people have always wanted this. We came under great repression during the USSR, then harsh Russification and propaganda. The Russians have come to our land and occupied it. They even say, 'It was you who came here,' and dictate to us how we should live.

Now people are beginning to see the light. ...
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Full interview at Charter 97 Press Center

[gixajo]

‘People Begin To Realize Moscow Is Our Main Problem’

I think China should start financing them and soon from the Urals to Kamchatka will be theirs, or at least, under its "sphere of influence."

Of course is a joke, what we need is a "multipolar world" implemented by "the axis of freedom", where all the peoples of the world live in peace and harmony in their own culture and without external interference that dictates how they should be, forcing them into forced homogenization that makes them forget their own and special identity!

[Your Old Comrade]

If they want their independence then Moscow should honour them for it and grand them their full independence. If the Russians want rights for "their people" in Ukraine, then they would be hypocrites for denying it to others.

[Blondie]

So the american woke government wants to flood your country with migrants but Moscow is your main problem?

[Salty Ears]

It's all been sucked out of the palm of your hand. Protests in his support from some activists who came from different villages of the region a little from everywhere (for whose money and for whose interests?) after his words about migrants from Central Asia, who do not allow Bashkirs to live. What the fuck is the Russification of Bashkirs by the Bolsheviks? The Bolsheviks created Bashkiria from the Ufa province, a future ethnocratic proto-state with Bashkirs at the head and introduced Salavat Yulaev into the pantheon of heroes, although he was a bandit, like his colleague Pugachev. The main thing for the Bolsheviks is to be against Russia. From Bashkortostan, the most dead people from the Urals against Ukraine? Bashkirs are only a third of the population of Ufa province, the remaining thirds are Russians and Tatars. After the Bashkirs joined, they participated in the war against Napoleon, were part of the local Cossacks, which were destroyed by the Bolsheviks because of their loyalty to Russia. Why doesn't he mention Tatarization, but only Russification. Tatarization takes place in rural areas, and Russification in the city, since in Russia the urban culture is Russian. People refuse ethnic languages in cities, you cannot develop as an engineer with him, you will not fully read Dostoevsky

[Dušan]

He can only dream, since ethnic Russians are most numerous people in that region.

According to the 2021 Census, the ethnic composition was:[49]

Russians 37.5%
Bashkirs 31.5%
Volga Tatars 24.2%
Mari 2.1%
Chuvash 2.0%
Udmurts 0.4%
Ukrainians 0.4%

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bashko...n#Demographics

[Zohor]

So the american woke government wants to flood your country with migrants but Moscow is your main problem?

How is your question related to Bashkortostan being the main point of the thread?

[Carpatz]

He can only dream, since ethnic Russians are most numerous people in that region.




https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bashko...n#Demographics

Colonization was a success. Reminds me of a similar situation in the Balkans.

[Carpatz]

How is your question related to Bashkortostan being the main point of the thread?

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whataboutism

[Teutone]

It's very hard for me to grasp how you know what she is and why you are so interested in defending her. I bet she cares less about being deemed a Kremlin bot than you.

Where do we apply to be Kremlin bots? Id like to get paid for my geopolitical opinions?

So far I am only aware Israel is paying you money if you justify the gaza genocide.