Struggle is conflict, sacrifice, blood, sweat and tears. Without this, there will be no freedom, no own state. This is the main lesson of 2022.

A white person eats a ripe pineapple, a black person eats a pineapple soaked with rot,

The white work is done by a white person, the black work is done by a black person.

V. Mayakovsky

On January 5, 1905, a priest Georghiy Gapon gave the rebels the idea that the king, they say, did not know about the aspirations of the mob and the working people, did not know about the troubles of the unfortunate sufferers of the empire.

You already know that first the empire destroys our cultures and languages, and then cracks down on the peoples. The surviving mankurts go to seize new territories, where everything will start anew – the destruction of a foreign culture, language, people.

Do you remember this famous passage from the Hadji Murat novel by Lev Tolstoy, where he writes about the attitude of Chechens towards Russians?

Let me give some quotes from it:

The so-called “head” of Chuvashia is a non-elected person. He was simply appointed by the occupation authorities. No one in the so-called “federation” has the right to vote and the right to choose – we all know this. Nobody asks people if they want this power. Everyone is simply put before the fact. Even among the imperials, no one has the right to vote, let alone among everyone else.

The author assumes that the very title of his article-reflection on the theme of the Islamic religion in the national liberation struggle will evoke protest in some readers, therefore he warns in advance that he is a devout adherent of Sunni Islam. His attitude to his and his ancestors’ faith, is as it should be for a Muslim – reverence and respect. Therefore, he asks readers not to rush to conclusions and read to the end of the article.

The All-Russian population census showed a steady downward trend in the number of the Tatar nation. In 2002 there were 5 554 600 Tatars living in Russia, in 2010 this number dropped to 5 310 600, and in 2021 it completely collapsed to 4 713 669. That is, the depopulation of the Tatar nation has not only continued over the past decades – it is accelerating at a terrible pace.

Such business cards are distributed in Krasnodar near the Carnival shopping mall. Marketing gods.

These slogans are missing there:

The Forum of the Free Peoples of Post-Russia has published such a cringe map of a possible “Russia of the future”.

Pensioner Roza Abaidullina and pensioner Sabira Yuldasheva live in the same microdistrict of a large Volga city. They have known each other for a long time, because they once worked at the same factory, and they became friends there. They help each other in life with moral support, share the successes and problems of their families. The level of prosperity, the composition of the family are approximately the same. Husbands are also pensioners, and also Tatars. There are two adult children in each family, but the children do not know each other, they only know about each other’s existence. The Yuldashevs have two sons, while the Abaidullins have an older daughter and a younger son.

Almost every Ukrainian will answer this question like this: of course, there are – every 200th Russian is good. But is it really so clear? Russian propaganda makes a lot of effort to arouse empathy for them, talking about their plight, proving that they are also victims – and objectively, they really suffer. Should one in this case have pity  for the mobilized Russians and the pitying mobilized Russians? Here is what the Ukrainian blogger Murat Sarsenov tells about this.

Rashists filmed another cringe, as if the British forced a hamster to spin a dynamo to generate electricity, and then ate it so as not to die of hunger – and that all is “because of Russophobia”.

Even people who are not interested in politics and who do not disdain working in the state bodies of the prison of peoples began to understand that during the mobilization, the genocide of the indigenous peoples of the Russian Federation is going on. A letter from such a person was published on the KushTay on-line Telegram channel, confirming that these were not “excesses on the ground”, but a targeted approach. With all his naivete, the author cannot fail to notice what is happening.

Opinions are divided. Some readers express the idea that not everything is so bad with the adopted changes to the Constitution of the Republic of Tatarstan. Minnikhanov, they say, managed to retain the post and the title of “President” until 2025. Until the time when Putin will have left the position. This allegedly indicates wisdom and far-sightedness of our Supreme Official. Three more years will pass, and there … Our old hope is that either the padishah will die, or the donkey will die. The approach, of course, is wise, philosophical in the Eastern way, which should be used when one feels that he has lost and he is screwed.