The Kremlin usually uses “foreigners” either as a showcase to demonstrate the ostentatious successes of the Russian world, or as a screen to cover up its evil deeds. It never considers them equals, and at the slightest disagreement it immediately recalls that they are such and such “non-Russians” …
If a new plant is built in Tatarstan (despite the fact that the Republic probably does not need such an exact plant), be sure that it will be blown all over the world. The leadership of the Republic will solemnly welcome high-ranking guests from Moscow, take them around the workshops, demonstrating spacious production facilities and workers hardworking on the assembly line in front of TV cameras. Under the lenses of television cameras, the delegation will be informed about the production plans, the number of jobs, that everything is built no worse than in Japan, that now we can catch up and overtake, provide in full, fulfill the dream of generations, etc., etc. But the main idea of the filmed story, even if not expressed aloud, will be the glorification of the wise leadership, without which the “non-Russians” would not have succeeded. And also a confirmation of the happy life of the native subjects, who voluntarily and far-looking entrusted their fate to the hands of the central leadership, the very Metropolis, without which not a single Tatar housewife would have come up with how to bake belyash on her own. That is why it is necessary to show in the story the happy faces of the favored Tatars, rejoicing at the visit of “A Person himself” from Moscow. Delight from the fact that they were tamed, trained, guided, controlled – in short, “made people”
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