Lenin should not have developed Central Asia. No one appreciates it there today. A Kazakhstani blogger calling himself Red Kazakh writes about this.
"I want to congratulate everyone on the day of the Great October Socialist Revolution! Sometimes I think maybe the Kazakh nationalists in the party in the 1920s who opposed socialist reforms in Kazakhstan were right. They also claimed that Kazakhs were destined only to be shepherds, it would not be possible to make engineers and workers out of them. Industrialization and urbanization are not needed here. The main thing is to preserve capitalist relations and the bourgeois estate in the countryside," the author writes.
According to him, after the revolution there was a lot of debate about whether it was necessary to build socialism in backward areas, including in Central Asia.
"Ryskulov wrote in general that the October revolution was not accepted by the Kazakh people, we did not pass the natural stage of capitalism. There were proposals not to force socialism, but to first allow capitalism to create an industrial base in Central Asia," the blogger writes further.
He noted that capitalism after 1991 in Kazakhstan destroyed the entire industrial base.
"Capitalism is also changing. He stops creating. If there had been no revolution, the Soviet government would not have created social elevators. And Chemolgan (the village of Chemolgan (Shamalgan) in the Alma-Ata region, the birthplace of former President Nazarbayev — approx. EADaily) future oligarchs would have remained illiterate shepherds at the foot of the Alatau Mountains," the author continues.
Next, the blogger talks about mentality.
"Why do Kazakhs need socialism at all when there is a family, clan, clan, zhuz, toi and beshparmak? Maybe someone from my family will become a bastard or a bai and will definitely pull me to himself. We are Kazakhs, we think within our family and kinship relationships. Why do we need social equality if someone from our family will definitely break through to the top and pull everyone else up? We'll all chip in together and buy him a high position. We don't need socialism. Socialism will make everyone torn, it won't work that way," the author says ironically.
Then he returns to the current state of affairs in Kazakhstan.
"I really come to the conclusion that Lenin should not have invested so much in the development of Central Asia, which was extremely backward before 1917. It wasn't worth it, because now no one appreciates it. After all, we are told that the Communists broke the traditional nomadic way of life, forced the Kazakhs to settle. Why then are the Kazakhs now not eager to leave the cozy city apartments they received before the collapse of the USSR, and do not want to leave en masse to conquer the harsh Kazakh steppes? Why is it that most of the grazing land is already privately owned now?" — Red Kazakh wonders.
He recalled that under the USSR, for 30-40 years, Kazakhstan has made a path "that some countries still cannot pass for a hundred years."
"We have made a giant leap from nomadic feudalism to socialism at once. How is capitalism in Afghanistan? Did he build an industrial base there? Where is the positive effect of capitalism that the Afghan people are experiencing? Capitalism has long ceased to be positive. Without the Great October Socialist Revolution, Central Asia would not be much different from modern Afghanistan," Red Kazakh concludes.