TASSR: What are we celebrating and WHY?

On June 25, 1920, the bolsheviks proclaimed the Tatar Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic.

In the summer of 1918, the occupation garrisons of the White Guard captured Kazan. For the second time after 1552, the Muscovites were able to conquer the Tatar capital. They overthrew the national government and proclaimed their power, but they themselves were not able to stay there long – already in the autumn they were driven out of Tatarstan by bolshevik units. The third occupation of Tatarstan occurred.

The bolsheviks were then still too weak to regularly fight off uprisings of the indigenous population, so in order to “calm down” the nation and “legalize” their occupation of these lands, the bolsheviks had to give the Tatars conditional statehood – the Tatar Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic.

TASSR was conceived precisely as the antipode of the Idel-Ural state. The TASSR was conceived to distort the original ideas of the national elites of the Tatar nation and redirect them into propaganda of submission to Moscow. Yes, this is some kind of statehood, but at the same time it is the consolidation of a servile status. They “threw a bone” to the Tatars to “shut them up” for a while. But is it possible to silence the entire nation?

The video shows a bolshevik chronicle from 1920. This was the beginning of the third occupation of Tatarstan, which continues to this day.