Kim Vasin: translator between cultures and the duality of the Soviet era

Kim Vasin: translator between cultures and the duality of the Soviet era

Kim Vasin did not question how the imperials would perceive translations of Russian-speaking writers into the Mari language.

Will they ask how “absurd” “Eugene Onegin” sounds in the Mari language, what the learned cat in Lukomorye says and why Mari literature is needed in general. He simply took and translated, knowing that the writers whom Moscow designated as Russian are replicated most easily and quickly, so this would make it easier for the Mari to expand their own language environment.

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For some reason, the ruscist did not say that “it would not be possible to intimidate the descendants of Kazan invaders”

He said about the capture of Paris, he said about the capture of Berlin, but he did not say about the capture of Kazan… Did he forget, or something? Or is this a not-so-convenient truth?

The Muscovites are so shocked by such opportunities of the enemy, that they even began to blame Kazakhstan – they say, Ukraine could not do it and the drones were launched from the territory of Kazakhstan). Sure, the imperials would have reached Kyiv in 3 days if the vile Kazakhs had not stabbed in the back)).

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Saransk aborigines dancing was liked by Great Russian tourists the most

It turns out that the results of the Tourist Cities All-Imperial  Award were summed up in Voronezh. The colonies competed for the best feedback from their hosts in the metropolis. Out of 64 cities, Saransk became the winner in the Best City of Ethnic and Cultural Tourism category. The colonists who were in the jury most appreciated the dancing, food and souvenirs, and not the almost complete absence of the Erzyan language, architecture and even Erzyan clothing on the streets of the city. But the colonial jury does not care about this.

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National languages in the shadow of the war: paradoxes of development in the republics of Idel-Ural

National languages in the shadow of the war: paradoxes of development in the republics of Idel-Ural

An interesting and sad fact: the number of the most active authors of all 7 national language sections of Wikipedia in the Idel-Ural republics does not exceed 400 people, and the total number of written articles is less than 700,000. For 7 languages. While the number of people killed in the war originating from Idel-Ural is more than 10,000 people, and this is only in the last 2 years, not taking into account the previous 8 years of the war, where a total of 14,000 people were killed on both sides.

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Reaction to the terrorist attack in Crocus City – a feeling of empathy, grief? No

Reaction to the terrorist attack in Crocus City – a feeling of empathy, grief? No

What is there to mourn? That overfed Moscow plunged at least for an hour into what it has been arranging for others for centuries? It is enough to take a look at the pages of the victims on social networks to understand that these people supported the regime, supported the empire, supported mass murders and extermination of other nations. They raised their children in exactly the same spirit. And if they all die because they welcomed all the actions of the Kremlin that later led to their death, then there should be no empathy for these characters.

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Reaction to the terrorist attack in Crocus City – a feeling of empathy, grief? No

Reaction to the terrorist attack in Crocus City – a feeling of empathy, grief? No

What is there to mourn? That overfed Moscow plunged at least for an hour into what it has been arranging for others for centuries? It is enough to take a look at the pages of the victims on social networks to understand that these people supported the regime, supported the empire, supported mass murders and extermination of other nations. They raised their children in exactly the same spirit. And if they all die because they welcomed all the actions of the Kremlin that later led to their death, then there should be no empathy for these characters.

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Why us?

Why us?

I was touched by a resident of Tyotkino village, who emotionally, with emotional pain, demonstrates and comments on the destruction and losses he suffered as a result of the liberation, as he says, by the “Khokhols” of this village on the territory of the Belgorod People’s Republic.

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