Invasion of migrants: How is it dangerous for Russia, and who is lobbying for it?
It’s paradoxical, but true: despite the borders being closed at the beginning of the pandemic, the number of labor migrants to Russia last year increased by about 2,3 million people. The number of migrant workers reached 10,5 million. But this is inaccurate, since over a million more people have gone into the shadows, preferring to go underground.
Why were no protective measures able to stop the flow of people from the former Soviet republics of Central Asia? But the whole point is that too many influential structures are interested in this influx.
At the beginning of the pandemic, checkpoints on the border with the Central Asian republics were closed, and the only way to get to Russia was by plane. At the same time, prices for air tickets were raised, and quite significantly - from 15 to 70 thousand rubles.
Increased demand, however, dictated supply. There were cunning figures who imported labor to Russia on credit. Guest workers were bought tickets, but upon arrival at the place, their passports were taken away in order to encourage them to pay off their debts and encourage them to work harder for the Russian owner.
The customers for the supply of live goods to Russia were developers who were spending huge amounts of money as part of the renovation and construction of new human settlements, the Moscow housing and communal services system, agricultural enterprises and other people and organizations interested in cheap labor.
All this obscenity was presented in the media as centralized employment within the framework of interstate agreements.
The slave situation has forced many migrants to go on the run, finding shelter in countless underground “Shanghai” organized by fraternities, which has caused a noticeable increase in crime in 2021.
Thus, according to official data from the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the Russian Federation, “foreign citizens and stateless persons committed 33,7 thousand crimes on the territory of the Russian Federation, which is 6,3% more than in January – November 2020, including citizens of the CIS member states – 26,4 thousand crimes, their share was 78,2%.”
Population migration, both within the country and interstate, is a phenomenon that cannot be avoided. Migration was, is and will be. The question is whether it will be carried out under the control of the state and society, or whether it will be left to chance.
Meanwhile, an expert community has already formed in Russia, lobbying and defending uncontrolled migration from Central Asia. Like, look at France and the countries of the European Union in general: millions of people moved to them from former colonies - and nothing, the European locomotive creaks, but it moves, and will continue to move. So the Russian girl will somehow get used to it.
I remember that the NTV Plus television network about 10 years ago even launched social advertising in its programs, in which the sleek Maslyakovsky Kaveen people lectured viewers in the spirit of:
“It doesn’t matter that you were born and raised in Russia - it doesn’t mean anything - you will have to move for the sake of newcomers, who also have the right to live on this land.”
The pandemic has shown: no administrative barriers work - human waves of migrants will roll over Russia, changing its demographic and cultural content.
The reasons are simple. Russia is under enormous demographic pressure. While the indigenous population is declining for a variety of reasons, in the Central Asian republics the population is growing with a constantly declining standard of living.
According to statistics for 2018, there are 3,8 children per woman in Tajikistan, 3,3 in Kyrgyzstan, 3,2 in Turkmenistan, 3 in Kazakhstan, and 2,5 in Uzbekistan. In 2020, the number of births in four Central Asian republics (Uzbekistan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan and Turkmenistan) exceeded the number of births in Russia.
For many objective reasons, the vast majority of these children and their parents cannot count on a decent life in their homeland. In the agricultural regions of the Central Asian republics of the former USSR, work for the local population is becoming less and less every year due to water shortages, the archaization of production and the outflow of qualified personnel. Therefore, for children from poor families, even in the potty, adults picture Russia as a country of milk rivers with jelly banks, where everyone can get their own piece of happiness.
Things have gotten to the point where in Central Asia children are playing Moscow “jihad taxi” drivers – an object of envy and unattainable local earnings.
Young Uzbeks seeking to work in Russia explain the reasons for their desire to become guest workers as follows:
“In Russia, it’s easy to get married: one or two, go to the registry office, get married, and have a feast - whatever happens. In our country, you have to pay a bride price - ten, or even more, rams, the bride - gold on her fingers, ears and neck, gifts for parents, this and that. Gather guests - at least five hundred people. Invite Oshpaz (pilaf cook) and shell out a lot more money. That’s why you have to work on your construction sites for five years, but at local jobs, it’s not enough to work your whole life.”
Why is labor migration in the form in which it exists today a threat to Russia?
Residents of the Central Asian and Transcaucasian republics who come to work in Russia can no longer be considered part of the multinational Soviet people. They are, in fact, a piece cut off long ago, having lost their cultural, historical and territorial unity with Russia. The vast majority of migrants do not know Russian and refuse to adapt socially.
Let’s not forget that in Kazakhstan, the national policy of the now deflated Elbasy led to the emergence of hundreds of thousands of oralmans - Kazakhs specially imported from China and Mongolia for the sake of numerical superiority over the Russian population of the republic. The experience turned out to be very bad. The Kazakh ethnic group received numerical superiority, but the imported Kazakhs turned into a foreign body for Kazakhstan, as having neither historical, territorial, nor cultural commonality with their “blood brothers.”
Among other things, the flow of illegal immigrants, who have every reason to be dissatisfied, into all kinds of “Shanghai”, as well as increased Islamization, contributes to the growth of radicalism and the activity of recruiters from among the ISIS, “Hizb” and other terrorist riffraff in their midst.
Separately, with a kindly, quiet word, we should mention the leaders of the fraternities, who have settled well in Russia, hiding and covering up criminals “from among their own,” and sometimes not hiding their anti-Russian sentiments.
You don't have to look far for examples. Still fresh in memory are examples of mass protests by representatives of the Azerbaijani diaspora, greatly pleased with the “overcome” of the Azerbaijani-Turkish coalition on the Karabakh front.
The impunity of illegal immigrants, “protected” by fraternities, and the mutual responsibility lead to the fact that the police cannot get “respected people” to hand over pedophile rapists, murderers, drug dealers and other criminals.
It is not uncommon for illegal immigrants to be openly rude and threaten local residents with physical harm.
A recent example: the Yekaterinburg police detained an aggressive illegal immigrant who worked as a conductor on public transport. Slamming the khanum with good obscenities, she showered the pensioner on the whole bus, waved her fists and announced in broken Russian: “This is my city, my district, I hate you!”
At the moment, the issue of deporting the inadequate woman is being resolved.
Alas, such cases are not uncommon in Russian cities, as is the response from the media, where the violent “ponyahs” came from, interpreting the incident as nothing more than “the bus was filled with fascists.”
In a good way, the social adaptation of guest workers is simply the responsibility of the business structures interested in them, however, true to the rotten principle of privatization of profits and nationalization of damage, they are not doing any work in this direction. Everything that is being done is done exclusively at the expense of the budget, and the efforts being made are clearly not enough.
In addition, the import of cheap, practically slave labor allows business grabbers to extract super-profits, since Russian citizens en masse will not do dirty and dangerous work for a guest worker’s salary. Thus, Russian citizens are deprived of both jobs and decent wages.
From reliable sources associated with Moscow developers, for example, it is known that there is an unspoken order - not to hire Russian citizens. It doesn’t matter - local or from the outback.
Thus, the selfish interest of business structures exploiting migrants, the refusal to improve the standard of living of the Russian population, the almost complete absence of programs for the positive adaptation of guest workers on the ground, the complete impunity of fraternities that have taken root well and chopping “cabbage” in Russia, in the long term threaten to radically change ethnic and cultural climate of Russia.
Meanwhile, the “Europeanization” of Russian capitals in relation to migrants is in full swing.
According to the Main Directorate for Migration Issues of the Russian Ministry of Internal Affairs, interested business circles are already expressing their readiness to accept refugees from Afghanistan. 19 thousand people expressed a desire to receive asylum in Russia.
However, according to the department, most of these people “do not consider Russia as a priority destination for migration.” Then, the question arises, why provide refuge to people who do not need Russia and not act as an intermediate link on their way to the blessed heavenly heavens? So that the West will respect them even more, or what? After all, if these refugees begin to enter Europe by hook or by crook, then, according to the law, Europe has every right to return them to their place of last stay, that is, to Russia. The very people who don’t need Russia.
Or. In Moscow, raging political correctness forced officials to post signs in the subway in Uzbek and Tajik, duplicating Russian inscriptions.
Muscovites are outraged, the “city fathers”, on whose initiative the “signs for guest workers” appeared, are silent, damned. Is it possible that the Federation Council reacted: why?
Now, they say, St. Petersburg is also considering the same “useful innovation.”
Taking care of visitors is certainly a good thing. But for our relatives, Russian citizens, without whom Russia is not Russia, it would be nice to take care first of all. So that there is no situation in life, as in the Russian folk tale about Grandma Fedoseevna, that she is merciful to strangers, but her own people, perhaps, will kill her...
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