Elder of Free Idel-Ural separatists, Syreś Boläeń , weighs in on the Ethnocide of Russia's Indigenous minorities via Putin's insane war against Ukraine
Posted May 2, 2022, 9:47 PM UTC
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Putin sure opened the Pandora's box there. Before this war nobody cared quite enough to understand how the Russian federation worked. You'd have told me 'Russia', I would have thought about it as a an entity where St Petersburg/Moscow was just another rich city like any european city and the rest of the country was just in a less good state.
Now however... we've got all the minorities, all the non Moscovites screaming 'we're stuck in a prison of nations'. That's... literally a decolonization speedrun we're seeing there.
I cannnot see how Russia can survive this. Now that the world -and soon Russia- knows that the emperor has no clothes and no army, the situation's going to explode.
Like, this war is a genocide on both sides at this point. When the minorities realize their children are being used as cheap canon fodder for Moscow's fever dream and that Russia's that never cared about them, a lot of blood is going to be spilled in Russia, and this time Ukraine won't be the one doing the killing.
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Russia, on paper, is built to support ethnic minorities, their rights and unique privileges. That being said, in practice the minorities are constantly pressured to assimilate and lose their privileges. This is something that probably isn't going to change even if Putin leaves, Navalny hates minorities and he's the least bad alternative for Russia.
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The sons of rural minorities get shipped off to the front lines, never to return. No one to carry on the language and culture of these ethnic groups who survived the rus homogenization of USSR.
I wonder how many will be forced to sign contracts in the upcoming recruitment drive.
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The Russian establishment really is just trying to eliminate all non Russia cultures and languages and people it can, in any way it can, apparently.
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Much like China and how it treats its ethnic minorities.
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Yes, which is why I fear China might try to take Siberia if Russia breaks apart.
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Russian imperialism needs to perish.
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The "less important" parts of Russia add up to how many millions of inhabitants?
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I heard 20 million somewhere, but I could be wrong. It's almost certainly more.
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It is little for them to maintain a resistance against Russia. Although it amounts to almost 50% of the population of Ukraine, but they certainly don't have the same level of training as Ukrainians, it must be standard Russian training.
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Putin is anti Christ. He's the modern day Beelzebub and his right hand Lavrov is his Lord of lies.
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Is he the same guy with the video in military fatigues in the snow back in Feb talking about all the other minorities in Russia gojng to support Ukraine?
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Yes it is. He is an Erzyan from Mordovia. He has spent a lot of time petitioning for his people's ability to teach their kids the language in primary school. He speaks a lot about what will happen during the breakup or Balkanization of the Russian Federation in some of his other videos.
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Oh I almost didnt mention that Ruzzia is the cause that all but 3 Uralic languages are endangered.
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A thought just hit me: If Russia does get broken up, who's gonna stop China from just taking all of that land and resources for themselves? Considering Russia is now seen as a pariah state (for very good reason), then if they get invaded by another country, nobody will come to Russia's defense (and some will be saying "serves you right Putin").
The only way that could potentially be stopped is if those new statelets that used to be Kremlin controlled create official governments and denounce all things Putin. Then maybe the US could help kick start them even if just to ensure Putin's Russia stays dead and China doesn't take them over.
Granted, a few might welcome China in as well, so there's also that. And as much as I hate Xi Jinping, if the inhabitants of said new country want China to occupy them, then nobody can really stop it.
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China has a bad track record with christians and muslims. They'll have a bad time with these people. They will stick to belt and road, and exerting influence over post soviet countries, while the russian civil war 2 electric boogaloo occurs.
The Free Idel-Ural crew has done a great job of translating and documenting their goals.
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Even with that in mind, you gotta remember China's propaganda is more effective than Russia's propaganda, at the east due to how they actually have the outward appearance of a prosperous country. So even if everyone in Siberia realizes only too late, China might try bribing them at first to seem more appealing than the US.
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Makes sense. For anyone trying to claim Putin is somehow liberating Ukrainians, look at how he treats ethnic minorities who are already fully in Russia. Putin's end goal is to turn Ukraine and Ukrainians into another second class citizen group built just to serve the Moscow establishment, while he siphons all of their resources into his cronies pockets.
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This Elder is a great man for speaking out!!
Ethnic groups in Russia are fodder for Putin's war...there are very few soldiers if any from Moscow or St. Peterburg. Putin is essentially cleansing Russia. This Elder is a brave man and he needs to be heard. I hope his bravery spreads across to the far east and these groups rise up against the Kremlin. All the power to them!
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Lol ll my
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I wish the people of the occupied regions of the so-called “Russian federation” would rise up against the their Muscovite oppressors.
Remember, you outnumber the Muscovites. Reclaim what was stolen from you.
No one will give you freedom and equality, you must take it.
"A prison of nations" is what he called it. That's something to think about.
Pretty much this, the inequality in Russia is off the scale. Especially the further east you go, my hope is once the military is severely weakened they can take their chance to take back what was stolen from them.
yea... i was confused why i saw a chines companys sponsor russian farmers and helping them build upp their farms and improve them... i thought that was the goverments jobb in helping their farmers expand if needed and not a foreign company.
but the more we learn of russia the more sense it makes. those farm was to the far east where russia dosent care about them whats so ever.....
Aka an empire
That’s what he does when he isn’t in Ukraine showing support. He leads a nonviolent political separatist movement from Mari-el or thereabouts in Idel-Ural that doesn’t want to be part of the Russian federation for all the right reasons.
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