The Volga Tatars are in the ranks of the Ukrainian Insurgent Army
The armed struggle of the peoples enslaved by Moscow for freedom and independence is the most taboo topic in imperial historiography. One can be proud of Musa Jalil (without looking deeply into the reasons for the creation of Tatar military formations in the Wehrmacht). Admiration for General Shaimuratov is welcome. It is even allowed to have a little cry in memory of those scientists, imams and mullahs, writers, poets and artists who were executed in thousands by the red Moscow in the 1918-1950s. In 1937 alone, 3,056 people were shot in Tatarstan. And that is just for a year! But even remembering the victims of repression, the Tatars should repeat that “not everything is so simple” – so that the Russians would not suddenly think that the Tatars held a grudge because of some trifling executions. In Tatar academic circles, it is considered good form to emphasize that the Bolsheviks executed not only the Tatars, but also the Russians – this fact should somehow smooth out all the suffering that the Tatars endured as part of Russia.
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