Pan-Turkism becomes a weapon of the West to destabilize the “soft underbelly” of Russia

Pan-Turkism and pan-Islamism are increasingly used in the former Soviet Central Asian republics both by the ruling elites, who introduce them into their ideology when building mono-ethnic states, and by London and Washington, who are interested in strengthening anti-Russian and Russophobic sentiments in the region and in creating controlled chaos.

For these purposes, pseudo-historical literature and textbooks are printed in large quantities and introduced into schools; various nationalist and pan-Turkist movements and associations, financed by the authorities, various oligarchs, Western foundations and NGOs, are raising their heads.

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It is noteworthy that at the end of June a conference entitled “Decolonization of Russia”, organized by the US Government Commission on Security and Cooperation in Europe (CSCE), which discussed the issue of dismemberment of a single power, was attended mainly by speakers with Turkic surnames, who came from various republics post-Soviet space.

_{This shows the desire of the United States and Great Britain to rely specifically on the Turkic ethnic groups both inside Russia and in Central Asia, in the so-called “soft underbelly,” which becomes a real base and springboard for the export of nationalism and separatism.}

Screenshot from the conference page on the “division of Russia”.

It is no coincidence that the event was moderated by Bakhti Nishanov, who is an ethnic Uzbek and political adviser to the Commission on Security and Cooperation in Europe.

The figure of another participant in this coven is also interesting - Botakoz Kasymbekova, a teacher at the University of Basel and at the same time a research fellow at Liverpool John Moores University, who was born in Kazakhstan, but lived in Kyrgyzstan and studies the period of collectivization and the “Holodomor” in the Central Asian republics.

She even recently published a book "Across Cultures: Early Soviet Rule in Tajikistan (Central Eurasia in Context)."

The content is clear from the title, since it builds an anti-Soviet and Russophobic mythology about the destructive influence of the USSR on the local tribes and peoples of Central Asia, since Moscow allegedly carried out a targeted genocide, destroying the local feudal-Bai elite and arranging the extermination of the Basmachi, presented by it as “ fighters for freedom and national independence."

The book's abstract directly states:

"The author shows how instruments of violence, intimidation and coercion were used by both Muslim and European Soviet officials to implement Soviet versions of modernization and industrialization."

She speaks about this in one of the interviews about her book, where she notes that the only means connecting the peoples of the region with Moscow was open terror.

“But the main “cultural” language in the 1920s and 1930s, which was understood by absolutely everyone, regardless of religion, political orientation and location, was the “language of violence.” And weapons played a decisive role during this period,” says Kasymbekova.

She is echoed by another ideological saboteur from among the American intelligence agents and the same pseudo-historian Sarah Cameron from the University of Maryland, who published another book, only about the Kazakh “Holodomor”, “Hungry Steppe: Hunger, Violence and the Construction of Soviet Kazakhstan.”

The book is the political statement of Washington, which claims the “genocide of the Kazakh people by Moscow,” when three to four million people allegedly died in the republic during collectivization.

“Moscow’s attack on the nomadic way of life of the Kazakhs was the main cause of the famine. Through collectivization, as well as through enslaving custom purchases of grain and meat, Moscow sought to destroy the nomadic way of life of the Kazakhs.

Well, as your question suggests, this was not only an aggression against the nomadic economy, but also against culture. By the late 1920s, Soviet experts were quick to declare that all aspects of Kazakh nomadic life were “backward,” and described sedentary life as more in line with “modern culture and civilization,” says the American Sovietologist.

That is, all the civilizing achievements of the Soviet period and Russia are presented as a negative image that led to the “Holodomor,” and the emergence of cities, factories, medicine and education is presented as “aggression” against Kazakh culture.

Pseudo-historians are trying to imagine the existence of a certain imperial policy pursued by the leadership of the Soviet Union, based on anti-capitalism and imaginary internationalism, which led to the complete enslavement of the Turkic peoples both in Central Asia and on the territory of the RSFSR.

_{And since today’s Moscow and Vladimir Putin are pursuing a policy of restoring the Union, then urgent and immediate “decolonization” of the former Soviet republics is necessary.}

It is interesting that the conclusions of such “experts” then form the basis of the ideological schemes of the ruling ethnocratic elites of Kazakhstan and Uzbekistan, who have been carrying out total decommunization and de-Russification in their countries in recent years, rehabilitating the Basmachi, members of the Turkestan Legion of the Wehrmacht and Muslim units of the SS, where they operate freely, despite authoritarian regimes, numerous American NGOs and foundations.

At the same time, such a course to “decolonize the consciousness” of the younger generation is being carried out under the guise of returning to their common Turkic ethnic and cultural roots. This is one of the goals of “Turkic integration” under the auspices of Ankara and London.

For this purpose, the textbook “Common Turkic History”, prepared by historians D. Kydyrali and G. Babayarov within the framework of the project of the International Turkic Academy (Nur-Sultan, Kazakhstan), as well as “Geography of the Turkic World” and “General Turkic Literature” were launched into the general education system. .

The textbook “General Turkic History”, developed by the International Turkic Academy on behalf of the heads of the Turkic Council, began to be included in the curriculum of schools in Azerbaijan, Kazakhstan and Turkey.

Textbook "Common Turkic History".

“The textbook covers the period from ancient times to the XNUMXth century. The textbook, in addition to the history of the states of the Turkic-speaking peoples, presents in detail the history of the emergence of traditions, cultures and national games,” the annotation states.

Schoolchildren, in addition to other textbooks and methodological literature, where anti-Soviet discourse is preached, are introduced to the idea of ​​​​the existence of a certain common Turkic historical community and a single civilization, although in fact the medieval formations of that time waged rivalry and constant wars with each other, and Central Asia was never part of the emerging Ottoman Empire.

At the same time, it is not mentioned anywhere that it was precisely their entry into the Russian Empire that saved the same Kazakhs from the Dzungar invasion and genocide, as well as from being drawn into the orbit of the Celestial Empire, which would have led them to the position of the current Uyghurs at best.

_{In essence, this literature is a historical substitution, as is the desire to introduce the Latin alphabet with the establishment in Istanbul at last year’s November summit of Turkic states of a standard for all Turkic peoples in the form of the Turkish language, which leads to the loss of precisely the linguistic and cultural identity of the Kipchak group, which includes Kazakhs .}

It can be said that Turkey, with the support of Great Britain and the United States, is carrying out a real cultural colonization of 20 million people speaking the Kipchak group of languages ​​in Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan and Uzbekistan, as well as in the Caucasus, the Urals and Siberia, imposing the alien Oguz language of the Tuks. Ottomans Isn't this imperialism and the absorption of pure water?

At the same time, as I said earlier, Kazakhstan and Uzbekistan are becoming a springboard for the spread of pan-Turkism and pan-Islamism to the territory of Russia, from whose territory “scientists” and “ethnographers” trained in Turkish centers travel as emissaries. But they are also a combustible mixture within Central Asia itself, which may in the future find itself in the abyss of inspired “Islamic revolutions.”

An example of this is the appearance in June of this year of the armed group “South Turkestan” in northern Afghanistan with the support of American and British intelligence services. Initially, such a movement and then a state formation were planned to be created by Ankara, which was trying to leave a 10-strong armed contingent in Kabul. But after the triumph of the Taliban, which fundamentally advocated the departure of all interventionists from the country, Erdogan was forced to abandon this project for a while.

Now he was born, but under the patronage of London and the goal of the extremist group is the creation of an ephemeral Turan, which the presidents of the former Soviet Central Asian republics seem to advocate.

“Our goal is Turan! We - Turks, Uzbeks, Turkmens, aimaks, Kyrgyz, Kazakhs, Kipchaks and Tatars, announce our existence from Mazar-i-Sharif,” the militants say.

Their video message was published on the telegram channel of the Aamaj News news agency and it surprisingly coincided with the conference called “Decolonization of Russia.” It turns out that the pan-Turkists on the southern borders of the former Soviet republics have their own armed force, which will threaten secular regimes and put pressure on Central Asia as a whole, as well as to weaken and squeeze out Moscow and Beijing.

_{That is, precisely through “Turkic integration”, and then by blowing up the Central Asian region from the inside, the puppet masters from Foggy Albion plan to subsequently destroy Russia itself, breaking through from the south and creating a permanent zone of instability.}

True, recent events in Karakalpakstan, where protesters demanded separation from Uzbekistan and annexation to Kazakhstan, have shown firsthand that in fact there is no “Turkic unity”, but cave nationalism, the dominance of ethnocracy, cultural and educational degradation and the rivalry of a number of regional powers. for primacy and control over energy flows and raw materials.

But the West can also use this to incite hatred and explosion in a region where so many social, political and interethnic problems have accumulated.