Kazan: restoration of the monument church in honor of the Russians killed during the capture of Kazan and a mural with Ivan IV

The restoration of the monument church in honor of the Russians killed during the capture of Kazan in 1552 began exactly a year after a large-scale religious procession and an unspoken ban on holding memorial meetings on the occasion of Хәтер көне on the same day. At the same time, there is not and never was a single monument to the fallen defenders and innocently murdered residents of Kazan.

It has become “patriotic” to paint a mural with Ivan IV in the city, and security forces will easily consider a similar mural with the Kazan Khan to be inciting ethnic hatred, propaganda of separatism and extremism.

By the way, one of the innovations of the Runet: during disputes, Russian Nazis respond to the Tatars in the comments with pictures depicting the invader king, directly hinting at “who is the boss here” and that the Russian occupiers “cannot be contradicted.” But the imperial repressive machine will never see xenophobia and incitement of ethnic hatred in such actions – on the contrary, Kremlin propagandists gave such an idea.