Russia will not stop as long as it exists within its current borders, - Kazakh historian Albani
The threats of the seizure of northern Kazakhstan by Russian troops, which are voiced by Russian propagandists, should be taken very seriously, believes historian and publicist Bakhtiyar Albani, nephew of Dinmukhamed Kunayev (First Secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of the Kazakhstan SSR, who fell out of favor with the leadership of the USSR in the 80s). According to him, Russia will not stop as long as it exists within its current borders.
"We must always keep this in mind and always remember the historical traditions of the Russian state itself, regardless of its structure. The entire Russian empire has always developed extensively, only at the expense of captured territories. There has never been any qualitative growth," Albani said in the podcast "Dope Soz", reports Censor.NET.
The historian recalled that before the full-scale invasion of Ukraine, Russian propaganda talked about how "Donbass was bombed for 8 years," and before that "all residents of Crimea were oppressed" and "forced to learn the Ukrainian language."
"And they constantly make references to language. What happened with the Ukrainian language, they say the same about the Kazakh language, that they are forcing, forcing," Albani noted.
According to the historian, even during the USSR, no matter who was in charge, the Kremlin authorities constantly invaded and captured new territories - the Czech Republic, Finland, Hungary. Immediately after the collapse of the USSR, the Kremlin "snatched" Transnistria from Moldova back when "Putin was still out."
"This trend has continued and will continue. After Karabakh, time passes and Georgia, Adjara and South Ossetia happen. Some more time passes and bam - Crimea. Well, the process is going on, you can't be blind. We see that the same thing is happening again. And this plan, this idea, has never left the Kremlin. It sits there and will always sit there, as long as the Kremlin regime exists, in its current form, and Russia in its current borders," said Albani.
At the same time, the publicist notes that against the backdrop of the Russian war in Ukraine, national self-awareness is awakening in certain Russian regions
"This is there, it has appeared in Yakutia, there are surges, even in Komi activists who are persecuted everywhere, Buryatia," the historian clarified.
