Scholars had long known how many people the Cheka and its allies shot in the Urals because in the1920s these siloviki proudly published lists of their victims, but until 2008, no one knew precisely where the bodies were buried.Now,they do;but the Putin regime has decided that it has to throw the rug
“According to the latest poll, 21.1 percent of Kazakhstan residents support Ukraine in the war, while 12.8 percent back Russia. But what is most characteristic of Kazakhstan attitudes is that 59.8 percent of the population say they are neutral.”
“Although Postnov doesn’t mention it, Putin’s reference to Beria may constitute a defense both of Stalin and of Putin himself, an appeal to remember the positive things he says he and his predecessor did and not just the negative ones.”
This pattern in fact has fed anti-colonial discourse in these republics by suggesting that this war is a purelyRussian one that they are being used in but about which they have no interest–a trend that has not been countered byMoscow whose officials seem to be ignoring what is written inthe non-Ru
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