What is Independence?

August 30 – the Independence Day of Tatarstan. But what is Independence? For a country and for a citizen?
I will try to explain it as simply as possible. It is when a Tatar is told that this option is the best, most successful and acceptable for him, and that path is the most optimal and promising, and that he just needs to trust the choice made for him (for our Tatar) and go forward cheerfully and energetically! And what is important, he does not even need to take on the burden of responsibility for the decision made – those who proposed and accepted this choice will be responsible. Here, like an obedient bull-calf, he goes directed by a shepherd – and he is always fed up, warmed in a warm barn, protected from wolves, diseases, and all sorts of other misfortunes! And moreover he, showing humility, according to the proverb, sucks two tits at once.
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