If Russia is not stopped, it will always pose a threat.
None of the empire’s neighbors can feel safe as long as it has the power to interfere and impose the “Russian world.”
Kazakhstan, in particular, has felt this more than once. And recently, Russian figures took the opportunity to remind us of this.
A former parliamentarian from Kazakhstan, Ualikhan Kaisarov, stated that some Russian regions are “primordially Kazakh lands.” He included cities such as Novosibirsk, Altai, Orenburg (Orynbor), Saratov (Saritou), Tyumen (Tömen), Omsk (Omby), Astrakhan (Astar-Khan), Kurgan (Qorğan).
“At least 500-600 km north of the current Kazakhstan border are primordially Kazakh lands,” he said.
“The Orenburg region was only transferred to Russia in 1926 or 1927. At that time, it was officially the territory of Kazakhstan. Therefore, Kazakhstan now has the full moral and historical right to demand these lands back.”
This Kaisarov has a rather specific reputation—Google might help. But they responded to him asymmetrically. The “inner workings” broke out.
The entire first deputy chairman of the State Duma Committee on CIS Affairs, Konstantin Zatulin, stated that Russia allegedly has no such “territorial claims against countries with which we have dialogue, friendship.” Ukraine has fully experienced such “friendship,” as well as what happens when Russia decides to forget about “dialogue, friendship.”
He immediately expressed the opinion that in Kazakhstan there are “enough people who <…> believe that Russia will definitely claim North and East Kazakhstan.” But as for the “marginals” who consider Orenburg a Kazakh city, “their value is known,” Zatulin believes.
And then the “publicists and bloggers” kicked off, rattling on that “within modern Kazakhstan, there are primordially Russian lands.” And Kazakhs allegedly had no statehood at all before the Soviet Union. Thanks to the USSR, the state formation known as Kazakhstan emerged,” declared a certain “historian” Spitsin (author of a history textbook, by the way; probably an adherent of Putin’s thesis on the “boundlessness” of Russia).
Such salvos show how alive imperial delusions are among the Rashists. Allowing them even the slightest capability to realize these delusions means laying the groundwork for future wars in the region.
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