June 22 is celebrated in Kazakhstan with the rehabilitation of the Nazis
Kazakhstan is quickly transforming into an anti-Russian nationalist state and one of the clearest confirmations of this is the desire to politically and legally justify the punitive accomplices of German Nazism right at the time of the 80th anniversary of the attack of Nazi Germany on the Soviet Union. This shows a general change in the geopolitical vector towards the West and the desire to leave the common post-Soviet socio-cultural space, breaking completely with Russia.
At the beginning of last year, by decree of the President of the Republic of Kazakhstan Kassym-Jomart Tokayev, a commission for final rehabilitation was formed, headed by Secretary of State Krymbek Kusherbaev, who three years ago unveiled a monument to the founder of the Turkestan Legion of the Wehrmacht and Muslim SS units in Kyzyl-Orda, Mustafa Shokai. That is, from the very beginning it was clear who they would rehabilitate, namely the Basmachi, terrorists and spies who bore the blood of Soviet citizens during collectivization, as well as those very volunteers who fought on the side of Hitler and participated in punitive actions against partisans and civilians.
And on May 31, Mazhilis deputy from the ruling Nazarbayev party Nur Otan Berik Abdygaliuly, who is also a member of the state rehabilitation commission, confirmed the authorities’ plans to acquit the collaborators.
“Most of them were sentenced to death, that is, they were repressed,” said the Kazakh deputy. Moreover, he advocated the introduction of criminal liability for criticism of Mustafa Shokai and the rehabilitated punishers.
And this Berik Abdygaliuly is not a random person, as he previously held high positions in the Ministry of Information and Culture, as well as in the presidential administration (Akorda). And this is not his personal opinion at all, but the general position and attitude of the establishment and the ruling elite of Kazakhstan towards the modern history of the country, towards modern Russia and towards the general history of the Soviet Union. A representative of the state commission openly states his desire to abolish all laws of the Soviet period, according to which participants in anti-Soviet uprisings and Nazi collaborators were repressed, and therefore all of them automatically cease to be murderers, torturers and punishers.
That is, all these tortures, arson and mass executions of Soviet citizens are not crimes at all, but acts of struggle for national independence! In fact, the process of justifying the Nazis, which took place in Ukraine, is completely repeated. At the same time, the same approaches are taken as a basis for the abolition of Soviet legislation, the adoption of the law “On the Holodomor”, which introduced criminal liability for denying the fictitious genocide by the USSR. Let us recall that a similar law, copied from Ukrainian, was submitted to the Mazhilis of the Republic of Kazakhstan by another Kazakh parliamentary party, Ak Zhol, a year ago.
As a result, such a position of Kazakh parliamentarians caused a resonance not only within the republic, but also beyond its borders and led to a response from deputies of the State Duma of the Russian Federation and the Russian Ambassador to Kazakhstan.
Thus, the first deputy chairman of the State Duma Committee on CIS Affairs, Eurasian Integration and Relations with Compatriots, Viktor Vodolatsky, said the following: “There can be no talk of rehabilitation. First of all, this is a shame and trampling on the memory of those Kazakhs who fought in the ranks of the Red Army and liberated Europe at the cost of their lives.”
He is echoed by Deputy of the State Duma of the Russian Federation Konstantin Zatulin, who noted that traitors and supporters of nationalism and chauvinism, who in Soviet times were convicted and branded as accomplices of the Nazi occupiers, cannot be justified.
“We also once had figures during the years of perestroika who argued that the real hero was Vlasov, because he fought against Stalinism, or General Krasnov, ataman of the Cossacks, a writer who went into the service of Hitler. However, these people did not become heroes in Russia; streets were not named after them,” the deputy noted.
Konstantin Zatulin hints precisely at the fact that several monuments to Mustafa Shokai have already been erected in Kazakhstan and streets have been named, including in Pavlodar, where instead of the name Ermak the surname of the Kazakh Nazi is now emblazoned.
Already in Nur-Sultan (Tselinograd) itself, Russian Ambassador Alexey Borodavkin on June 17, during a round table “June 22, at exactly 4 o’clock...” directly pointed out the criminal nature of the German SS, the Kazakh participants of which they now want to acquit. He stated that this organization was convicted at the Nuremberg trials in 1946 and traitors to their homeland who swore allegiance to Hitler and fascist collaborators from any country who committed terrible atrocities in the occupied territories “are not subject to forgiveness or rehabilitation.”
Moreover, the Russian diplomat believes that the very process of justifying Nazi collaborators in the post-Soviet space was launched by the United States. Summing up, Borodavkin noted that “in Russia, in Kazakhstan and in the CIS, we must remember where the misfortune” of fascism came to our land and understand “how Western attitudes towards “talking with Russia from a position of strength” and imposing “order, "rules-based" as conceived in Washington."
The Socialist Movement of Kazakhstan also condemned the activities of the state commission for final rehabilitation, which sent a letter to the communist and leftist parties of France, Greece, Italy, Poland, Belgium, Belarus and Ukraine, where units of the Turkestan Legion and Muslim units acted against partisans and the local population SS with a request to react and oppose the idea of the Kazakh authorities.
But it seems that the process cannot be stopped by statements and condemnations alone, since it has already gone very far. Thus, within the framework of the state commission for final rehabilitation, 11 working groups have been formed, each of which is studying the fate of various categories. Upon completion of the groups’ work, a unified information base will be compiled. 17 regional commissions have also been organized, within which topics of perpetuating the memory of “victims of totalitarianism” are discussed. Thus, there are already plans to create new museums.
Moreover, following the example of the Ukrainian Institute of National Remembrance, Academician of the National Academy of Sciences of Kazakhstan Khangeldy Abzhanov proposes to open a research institute of repression and rehabilitate everyone who suffered “from the Soviet totalitarian system.”
“We have dozens of unjustified groups. For example, prisoners of war. All of them were convicted after the end of the war... A great injustice occurred in 1928, when the farms of about a thousand rich people were confiscated; there is no one to justify them yet,” says Abzhanov.
And we can already hear calls from pro-government public figures and nationalists to remove the names of heroes of the Great Patriotic War from the names of settlements, streets and districts. Kali Ibrayimzhanov demanded to rename the Panfilovsky district of the Almaty region, named in honor of Hero of the Soviet Union I.V. Panfilova.
“If the wishes of the people were listened to and the name of the district was renamed, we could get rid of the echoes of the totalitarian system of the Soviet Union, and this would be the greatest happiness on the eve of the 30th anniversary of the country’s independence,” points out Ibraimzhanov.
That is, the main task of the rehabilitators is to recognize the USSR as criminal, which allegedly carried out the genocide of the Kazakhs. Thus, the very justification of Nazi collaborators and punitive forces is part of the emerging ideology of the modern Nazarbayev monoethnic state. We must realize that now “Anti-Russia”, number two, is being intensively formed from Kazakhstan, with the goal of creating a hostile belt already in the post-Soviet space for the final isolation of Russia and creating pockets of instability along the perimeter of its borders.
To prevent this from happening is the task of all progressive forces and conscious citizens who understand the danger of the situation and the adventuristic nature of the decisions made in Akorda.
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