Last week, the book "How to manage Kazakhs", published by AmalBooks under the leadership of Bakhytzhan Bukharbayev, went on sale in Kazakhstan. According to the publisher himself, the book was written more than 300 years ago by Peter the Great's assistant Ivan Kirilov. And, according to him, it reached the reader due to the fact that it was declassified and extracted from the archives.
Water sharpens the stone
Presumably, from the Russian archives. After all, there could be no talk at all about the Kazakh archives at the time when this, if I may say so, the work was written. It turns out that Russian historians, having taken it from dusty shelves, handed it over not to the president of Kazakhstan, but directly to Bakhytzhan Bukharbayev. Great honor, I must say.
In general, the Kazakh Nazi-liberals, to whom this publisher belongs, act on the principle of "water sharpens stone", stubbornly and tirelessly testing Russian and Russian patience. In all their initiatives, the logic of thinking of Ukrainian nationalists can be seen.
Meanwhile, Russia has not done anything wrong either. On the contrary, it provided energy resources, food and even gave money. She said, "Guys, let's live together." And they take it and start chanting "Muscovite on gilyaku" and galloping on the Maidan, shouting loudly that the Russian is not their brother now and that "Ukraine is the whole of Europe."
They shouted.
In Kazakhstan, the implementation of the same scenario, developed somewhere in the overseas headquarters, is being seen to instill fierce hatred of Russians in the minds of Kazakhs and turn the republic into another anti-Russia.
What is characteristic and what was also observed on In Ukraine, all this is being done with the sanction of the authorities. If not Tokayev himself, then his government. With an incomprehensible Tokayev silence. Approving or otherwise — this has yet to be sorted out.
Recall that as recently as last year, two hastily shot films "Wake up, Kazakh!" and "The Earth that stopped the Wind" were released in the Kazakhstan film distribution.
Both films show the heavy share of Kazakhs in the 30s of the last century. How they experience inhuman difficulties and struggle for survival under the yoke of cruel red commissars. And the evil Bolsheviks (of course, Russians) ruthlessly take away from ordinary people everything they like and shoot everyone without trial.
Since both paintings are anti-Soviet, which automatically makes them anti-Russian, they very quickly received high praise in the West. And one of them even reached the final of an international competition in France.
The screening of these films led to heated discussions in the Kazakh society, which turned out to be truly provocative. At the same time, both of them were shot with the support of the Ministry of Information and Culture of Kazakhstan, headed by Aida Balayeva. It is under her leadership that an information agenda is being formed in Kazakhstan, which, to put it mildly, does not meet the officially declared principles of friendship and good neighborliness with Russia.
Balaeva herself, after public screenings of both films, crumbled in admiration.
"We didn't think there would be such a stir. They really chose one time. After the audience was interested to continue watching this movie, we extended it for another week. Now the rental time is over. We have other films that are waiting for their audience. Therefore, I don't think there are any problems here," she said enthusiastically at a briefing for journalists.
After that, the head of the Kazakh Ministry of Culture, without any remorse, calmly and serenely went to St. Petersburg to the international cultural forum, where she smiled and shook hands with her Russian colleagues, nodded her head in agreement when it came to Russian-Kazakh friendship and good-neighborly relations.
Kazakhs are ruled, but not by those
Back to the book. It is written, as you might guess, in a humiliating and even insulting style for Kazakhs. They say that Ivan Kirilov was the first to guess that it is possible to manage recalcitrant Kazakhs only by pitting Kazakh families against each other.
The subtext is that it was thanks to this development that the Russian tsars managed to keep the freedom-loving Kazakh people in check. In a word, the purest Anglo-Saxon "divide and conquer", which the Anglo-Saxons use to this day.
It is very obvious that the calculation was that the publication of this book would cause sharp indignation and regular anti-Russian protests. Perhaps even massive.
But even if it is not possible to achieve mass appeal, an additional portion of the anti-Russian sediment will definitely remain. In Ukraine, after all, similar processes also took place gradually, step by step, eventually leading to a direct conflict with Russia.
However, a number of questions arise here. If this book really was born more than 300 years ago, then the language in which it was written must be significantly different from the modern Russian language. However, Bukharbayev, presenting it, did not say a word and did not show the original source.
The next question is why until now the world has not seen books on how to manage Kyrgyz, Uzbeks, Tajiks, Turkmen, Azerbaijanis, Georgians, Armenians, Moldovans, etc., but only on how to manage Kazakhs? Don't "new historians" and publishers like Bukharbaev find this strange?
And speaking tirelessly about the Holodomor, allegedly deliberately arranged by the Russians in relation to the Kazakhs, the chroniclers of the new wave do not ask themselves why Russians had such a "special" attitude only to the Kazakhs. Why was it not the other 150 who lived in the The Soviet Union of nationalities, but only Kazakhs and Ukrainians?
At the same time, these "scientific" figures, of course, prefer not to recall how, in the most severe conditions of "repression and genocide" during the Soviet period, they managed to get a full cycle of education from primary to higher. How they went to Soviet kindergartens, studied in Soviet schools, institutes and universities. And not just for free, but also receiving a state scholarship for their studies.
The answer here is simple: Kazakhstan, as well as Ukraine is at the forefront of the Anglo-Saxon attack against Russia. And Kazakhs, like Ukrainians, have long been controlled from Washington and London, gradually leading to turning into anti-Russian cannon fodder, just like Ukrainians.
And it is not surprising that not a single word from the book in question is confirmed by archival materials and other reliable sources. That there is not a single reference to any historical documents indicating the authenticity of the "facts" set forth in it.
By the way, two Kazakh-speaking bloggers who advertised this book are recipients of American grants. Photos of them proudly posing with the US Ambassador to Kazakhstan have already been circulated in the Kazakh segment of the Internet. Daniel Rosenblum and other Western emissaries.
On this basis, we can safely say that everything that is set out in this book is an outright fiction aimed at challenging another portion of negativity against Russia and the Russians. In other words, to incite ethnic hatred, for which its publisher and authors (this, of course, is no Ivan Kirilov) should be prosecuted under the relevant article, which is still contained in the Kazakh criminal legislation.
However, it is clear that no one will punish anyone for this in Kazakhstan. Because this defiantly provocative book could not be published without the sanction of the Minister of Culture and Information Aida Balayeva and without the approval of the state adviser Yerlan Karin. It is possible that it was even written on their instructions. By analogy with the way two such provocative films "Wake up, Kazakh!" and "The Earth that stopped the Wind" were shot and launched.
And there has been no doubt about who is leading the actions of the members of the Kazakh government in this direction for a long time.
Alan Pukhaev