Black pages of the Russian people: Tuva, Tajikistan, Chechnya

2024 Author: Seth Attwood | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-16 15:55

As I promised, I want to tell you about the not very pleasant part of the history of the Russian people. I will break the posts into 4 parts with a conclusion and a debriefing. Even if it is a “multi-bucket”, I recommend it to everyone, because many of you have not heard anything about it, and this is happening to this day, somewhere not far from all of us.

Part one. Genocide in Tuva

The Republic of Tuva (also Tyva) became famous for the fact that the first Russian pogroms in the USSR began on its territory since the 1990s. Tuvan youth, under the undisguised approval of the majority of Tuvans and Tuvan officials, began to smash Russian houses in rural areas of Tuva. Crowds of aggressive rural Tuvans gathered in the cities, oriented in advance to attacks on any Russians who could be beaten, robbed or killed with impunity.

In the late 1980s, in the article “Better to build bridges,” the 1st secretary of the regional committee of the Komsomol of Tuva V. Kochergin wrote: “Even when there were certain acts of youth that could be called nationalist, we called them only hooligan (…) We must admit that the guys who come to the city from the countryside are not cultured enough”(May 2, 6, 1989). Doctor A. Kanunnikov writes in his letter to the editorial office of Tuvinskaya Pravda: “Lately, victims at the hands of extremist youth are increasingly admitted to the hospital (…) I lived in Tuva for 33 years and did not notice when the sprouts of manifestations of nationalism first appeared. (…) More frequent brutal beatings in unprovoked fights, stab wounds with which young people are admitted to the hospital … from all this it becomes uncomfortable "(2, 3 September 1989," Unity is required "). Another doctor, VA Vereshchagin, says: “Almost a third of our operations are the result of crimes” (September 2, 3, 1989, “To spite four deaths”). The doctor of the republican hospital L., a Russian, complained in his conversation with me that “in recent years it has become impossible to work. Attacks on medical staff by Tuvan patients have become more frequent. The police do not protect us in any way”(1993).

At that time, almost 50% of the Russian population lived in Tuva, but realizing that Moscow actually turned a blind eye to what was happening and was morally ready to surrender Tuva to local nationalists, the first to flee from Tuva were Russian chiefs, among whom was the head of the USSR KGB Directorate.

In 1990, tensions reached their peak. In the spring and summer, processes take place in the republic, which among the local population are called "events of the 90th year." Interethnic relations are aggravated in cities and towns with a mixed ethnic composition. In the urban-type settlement Khovu-Aksy, where a large-scale metallurgical enterprise was located in Tuva, in the spring of 1990, fights broke out between Russian and Tuvan youth, pogroms of the Russian-speaking population, and, as a result, a massive departure of Russians from the village. By August 1,600 people had left the village (2, 15 August 1990, "United Front - to eradicate delinquency"). It is precisely the riots in Hovu-Aksy that many informants call the beginning of the "events of the 90th year." Our Tuvan informant K. Sh. Believes that the provocative behavior of the Russians was the cause of the conflict: “They didn’t choose a Russian, one of the leaders of Tuvacobalt, as a deputy, he set the Russian youth against the Tuvans, and that is how it began.”

During this period, attacks on drivers became more frequent throughout the republic (2, 16 December 1990, "United Front …"). For example, in the period from 13 to 26 July, there were 6 attacks on vehicles, including intercity buses, of which 2 attacks were with the use of weapons. On average, during this period, 20-40 crimes per day occur in the republic. Unfortunately, there is no data on what part of these crimes were associated with ethnic conflicts. "The governing bodies of the republic, the regional committee of the CPSU, basically classify cases of conflicts on interethnic grounds as hooliganism …"

On December 6, 2013, the Pan-Slavic Youth Association of Tomsk announced the start of a campaign to recognize the fact of the genocide of the Russian population in the Republic of Tyva from 1990 to the present day. [7] The organization is collecting additional information and eyewitness testimony about beatings, robberies, harassment and murders of civilians. Representatives of the organization ask all witnesses to report information they know about discrimination against Russians in Tuva.

The project "Genocide of Russians in Tuva" has its own page in one of the social networks. On the page, the organization reports that the population of Tuva in 1980 was almost 40% Russian. According to the results of the recent census, about 50 thousand Russians or about 16% of the total population live in the republic. And according to unofficial data, voiced by Tuvan officials, there are no more than 10% of Russians left, and this percentage is falling every year.

So the time has come to show you the second part of our common history, which, like the genocide in Tuva, no one really knows about. The text, again, may seem long to you, but it is obligatory to read, maybe it will help you to realize something, maybe even change in your head and awareness of life.

Part two. Genocide in Tajikistan

It so happened that when the "dashing" 90s began in the courtyard, the scoop went slowly to lie down in the grave, in the post-Soviet space thoughts began to slip that, you see, the Rus were to blame for everything. In Azerbaijan, Chechnya, Tuva, Georgia, pogroms against the Slavic population took place here and there. Tajikistan also decided to keep up, and this is what came of it.

“In February 1990, exactly on the day of the next anniversary of the Islamic revolution in Iran, there was a pogrom of the Russian quarters of Dushanbe. The murder of ORT correspondent Nikulin in broad daylight, the shooting of a school bus with the children of Russian officers from a grenade launcher. The brutal massacre of an Orthodox priest in Dushanbe, the burning of a church, atrocities in cemeteries … etc. " Vladimir Klenov, Dushanbe. "Pamir: Recollection of Russians".

“And the next day, the section of the road at the textile mill turned into hell. Islamic fundamentalist gangs blocked the highway. They dragged Russian women out of buses and trolleybuses arriving from both sides and raped them right there at bus stops and on the football field by the road, the men were brutally beaten. Anti-Russian pogroms swept across the city. "Tajikistan for Tajiks!" and "Russians, get out to your Russia!" - the main slogans of the pogromists. Russians were robbed, raped and killed even in their own apartments. Children were not spared either. Tajikistan has never known such fanaticism … City and republican authorities were confused …”Vladimir Starikov. "Long road to Russia"

“May - June 92nd. In Dushanbe, thousands of rallies of Islamists are taking place … In a suburb of Dushanbe, unidentified persons shot dead bus passengers - 12 people, who became the first victims of the impending civil war, terrible in their senseless cruelty. The bus was burned. On the same day, one of the opposition leaders, speaking on national television, declares all Russians living in Tajikistan hostages … Civil war in the conditions of "neutrality" of state power structures, after the statement of the heads of the Ministry of Internal Affairs and the National Security Committee (National Security Committee) of the Republic of Tajikistan on neutrality departments subordinate to them, completely covered the central, southwestern and southern regions of the republic. October 92nd. Dushanbe, the capital of Tajikistan, is in the hands of the Wahhabis. In a Russian school in the center of the city, the Islamists took schoolchildren hostage, etc.”

At the time of 1989 the Year of Slavs in Tajikistan there were 395,089 thousand people. What do we have for 2010? 68,200 thousand.

All this is suggestive … why is it so? Why were we thrown? Why on our, Slavic blood, empires were held. And we are exhibiting second-rate people? Why are Tajiks, Georgians, Azerbaijanis, Chechens and others, who hated us so much, suddenly and actively try to move to us, to our Slavic cities? For now, you should find the answers to all these questions yourself, dear readers. It depends only on you which of this lesson you can endure and whether the same fate will befall you. There is a lot of information on the topic of the Slavic genocide on the Internet, I hope that I have stirred up interest in this topic in our readers and that you yourself will begin to study this unpleasant, but very important issue for our people.

I remember well how, as a child, young soldiers, films, TV series about the war were often shown on TV. I remember how my father was indignant, I remember how my grandfather's face changed, it expressed a kind of sadness, misunderstanding. I remember this then still completely incomprehensible word for a child. Chechnya. About the Chechen war, and what I wanted to write there, I even want to shout about this great injustice.

Then, as a child, I still did not understand everything, did not see all those frames and newsreels, did not read the stories of eyewitnesses and survivors. But even then I realized that I wanted to become a soldier. I realized that I want to be that good uncle from the TV screens, get into the special forces, go to this incomprehensible country for me "Caucasus"

Part three. Genocide in Chechnya

According to the 1989 all-Union census, 1,270,429 people lived on the territory of the Chechen-Ingush Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic, including 734,501 Chechens, 293,771 Russians, 163,762 Ingush, 14,824 Armenians, 14,824 Tatars, 12,637 Nogays. etc. At the same time, about 1,100 thousand people lived on the territory of Chechnya.

Before the war, 397 thousand people lived in Grozny, while the share of only Russians in the ethnic composition, according to the 1989 All-Union Population Census, was 210 thousand people.

Problems began back in 1990, when the first "letters of happiness" appeared in mailboxes - anonymous threats demanding to clean up in an amicable way. In 1991, Russian girls began to disappear in broad daylight. Then they began to beat up Russian guys in the streets, then they began to kill them. In 1992, they began to expel those who are richer from their apartments. Then we got to the middle peasants. In 1993, life was already unbearable. My son Dmitry was beaten by a group of Chechens in broad daylight so that when he came home, it was a lump of blood and mud. They interrupted his auditory nerve, since then he has not heard. The only thing that kept us going was that we hoped to sell the apartment. But even for a song, no one wanted to buy it. At that time, the most popular inscription on the walls of houses was: "Do not buy apartments from Masha, they will still be ours." Thank God, by that time we had managed to dump the “Izvestia newspaper” dated 01.28.05 ″

According to Akhmar Zavgaev, after the unpunished murder in 1991 of the mayor of Grozny, the first secretary of the city committee of the CPSU Yuri Kutsenko (he was thrown out of the third floor window) and the absence of any reaction from Moscow to the seizure of the building of the Supreme Council in Grozny by the Dudayevites, the genocide of the Russian-speaking and non-Chechen population began republics, the elimination of people suspected of having links with the state security, and the squeezing out of those who did not support separation from Russia. For example, in one of the addresses of the residents of the village of Assinovskaya of the Sunzhensky District to President Boris Yeltsin, there was an increase in the number of attacks on Russian residents. Here, since August 1996 alone, 26 Russian families have been killed and 52 households have been seized. The book, compiled by order of Rosinformtsentr, spoke about the appeal of 50 thousand Russian residents of the Naursky and Shelkovsky districts.

… with the coming to power of Dudaev, we turned from the owners of the district into residents of the reservation. During these three years, all Russian farm managers have been expelled. Collective and state farms have been plundered. Forest belts are being destroyed, telegraph poles are plundered. Localities have been renamed without our consent.

We were deprived of a day off on Sunday, and made a day off Friday. We did not have an official exchange of money, we were not given vouchers. The school is taught in the Chechen language, and the schools themselves (equipment) have been plundered. We don't get wages, old people have pensions. We constantly hear offers and threats to get out to Russia …

Over the last year alone, in two settlements of the Naursky district, st. Naurskaya and st. Kalinovskaya:

Beaten to death by Prosvirov.

The deputy director of the Kalinovsky SPTU V. Belyakov was shot at his desk

The director of this school, V. Plotnikov, was wounded and blinded.

Stabbed and burned by the head of the oil company A. Bychkov.

The spouses - the husband and wife of the Budnikovs - were stabbed to death.

Stabbed to death grandmother 72 years old Podkuiko A.

The intestines of the workers of the Tersky state farm Shipitsyn and Chaplygin were stabbed and released.

The chairman of the collective farm, Erik B. A., was kidnapped (for whom they demand a ransom of 50 million rubles).

Jalilov's father and daughter were stabbed to death.

Old man Alyapkin beaten to death (in the police).

V. Abozin and Potrokhalin's grandmother were killed.

The secretary of the SPTU Potikhonin was kidnapped and killed.

According to ethnologist Valery Tishkov, the non-Chechen, primarily Russian, population was subjected to massive persecutions, many of them were killed by Chechens, only Grozny left 200 thousand inhabitants with complete indifference of the Russian authorities and the world community. In the 1990s. during the presidency of Dzhokhar Dudayev in Chechnya, there was an inscription in white stone at the entrance to Grozny: "Russians, do not leave, we need slaves and prostitutes."

On February 18, 1992, the appeal of a former resident of Grozny is dated, which reports on various actions directed against Russian residents:

“I was kicked out in the middle of the school year, leaving me without vacation, without coupons and compensations. Then they began to persecute the children. Bottles of mercury were thrown into the school where most Russian children study. The girls were afraid to go out on the street, as the youngsters of the indigenous nationality were constantly chasing them in order to steal them.

Unbearable situation in transport, shops for bread. Without insults and provocations, it is impossible even to buy a loaf of bread. Before the elections, the Dudayev gang of thugs tried to break into our apartment at night. At the same time they thrust in daggers and shouted.

According to the data published by the State Council of Chechnya, from 1991 to 2005, 150-160 thousand people died in Chechnya, of which about 30-40 thousand were Chechens. The rest are Russians, Dagestanis and representatives of other ethnic groups inhabiting Chechnya. Subsequently, the head of the State Council of Chechnya, Taus Dzhabrailov, noted that all the missing in Chechnya were included in the death toll, and that the figures he named could not be considered official, since they could not be documented.

According to census data, in 1989 there were 269,130 Russians living in the Chechen-Ingush Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic (24.8% of the population), in 2010 there are 24382 Russians living in the Chechen Republic (1.9%)

Part four. "We are what we are and what we will be."

When I was 8 years old, my father came up to me and said - "Son, if someone ever offends you, take a brick and hit him in the head."

Weird advice for an 8 year old, isn't it? But over the years I grew up, and I realized that this was one of the most useful advice in my life. Over the years, everything became clearer and clearer. I read about the Red Terror, how Rusov was shot and repressed like cattle, I learned that my relatives were exiled to the Urals to dig mines, due to the fact that my great-grandfather was in German captivity and fled. I learned how my people were dispossessed and trampled into the mud and did not understand how it is possible for a Russian person to be a communist after such a Russian?

I read about Chechnya, then about Tuva, Azerbaijan, Tajikistan, and other local clashes. Why didn't our people resist? Why, even now, when all this is known, I see how in our comments people manage to say that sports are not needed, that it is a trap to serve in the army, that carrying knives is almost a sign of a psychopath. After all, understand me, dear readers, today on the street someone will be beaten, because he did not have time to practice martial arts. Tomorrow your neighbor will be killed, because trauma does not help anyone, and it’s no ponto. And then the day will come when they will come to kill you and your whole family, and they will kill you, because it is dangerous to keep a hunting rifle at home, and why, because you are not a hunter at all.

The history of our people is built on wars and blood. Do you think that this will not happen to you? So here it is, not far away, in Russia, 10-20 years ago. And why think, in our time, today, now somewhere someone is being killed, not in a war, not for a good reason, but for some 500 rubles and a mobile phone. The enemy is somewhere nearby, he walks among us and only together can we fight him back.

"Impunity breeds permissiveness." And it's true, it's hard to start hitting someone when, in the first couples, you get hit in the face. It is difficult to cut someone when they start shooting in your belly from trauma. To be a Russophobe is fun until the first broken nose, before the first shot through the leg, after that being a Russophobe is not just not fun, but sad. If every Russian peasant will have a “Saiga” at home, and his children will be CCM in hand-to-hand combat, then we will only hear about Russophobes from fairy tales.

Our movement begins with each of us, all of us, one big organism, one people. All the great people of our time are just people, no better and no worse than you. Each of us can become great, each of us can contribute to our common movement, and each of us can do so that from now on nothing that was described in the previous parts will never be repeated.