Russian Bronze Statue in Estonia

[kaur]

During last week in Tashkent (Uzbekistan) there were destroyed Russian church and war memorial. No reaction from Russian side.

Here are articles in Russian.

http://www.newsru.com/world/22nov2009/jh.html

http://www.vremya.ru/2009/216/5/242370.html

[Stan]

Great articles, Kaur ! But keep in mind that only 5.5 percent of the 28 million are Russian (well, so they think they are), which doesn't leave much room to bitch or be acknowledged. We could be so lucky

If I remember correctly, the Uzbek government was already tearing down glorified Soviet memorabilia as early as 1890 something. Much like Estonia, Tashkent desired to take control over her own destiny. Who would want to be remembered as being part of the Soviet empire with a bunch of churches and bronze statues ?

Did you catch the Russian paper Pravda's journalist who comment something to the effect of "better to show respect to NATO who are protecting the world and the harvest of opium poppies"

Much like Estonia's President, Russia can't afford to piss off President Karimov (he does not play well with others (Russians))

The DOS has some interesting points regarding religion and Uzbekistan. A bit of a long and boring read though !

Regards, Stan

During last week in Tashkent (Uzbekistan) there were destroyed Russian church and war memorial. No reaction from Russian side.

Here are articles in Russian.

http://www.newsru.com/world/22nov2009/jh.html

http://www.vremya.ru/2009/216/5/242370.html

[Stan]

Oops, forgot the English speaking community with my last post

The demolition of monuments might be another proof of Uzbekistan turning its face to the West. Pravda.ru interviewed Andrei Grozin, Head of the Department of Central Asia and Kazakhstan at the Institute for CIS countries to find out.

“The actions of the Uzbek officials look like a challenge. Yet, if we were to analyze their behavior since the collapse of the USSR, we would have observed nothing strange. Tashkent was initially determined to eliminate everything linked to the Soviet past.

[kaur]

1 neostalinist Russian site has produced their own database of resistance vicitims. Paul Goble takes a look from different angle.

Many Russians who visit this site may learn for the first time just how strong was the resistance to Stalin’s imposition or re-imposition of Soviet power in the Western borderlands of the USSR and the occupied Baltic countries, something that will do little to promote positive attitudes among them to the peoples of these now independent countries.

At the same time, many of the peoples in these countries will be able to use this site to learn more about the national resistance in their past than many of them have up to now, a knowledge that will also affect how they view the Soviet system and those who continue to apologize for some of its worst periods and personalities.

http://windowoneurasia.blogspot.com/...-web-site.html

[kaur]

The Worst of the Madness

November 11, 2010
Anne Applebaum

Bloodlands: Europe Between Hitler and Stalin
by Timothy Snyder
Basic Books, 524 pages, $29.95

Stalin’s Genocides
by Norman M. Naimark
Princeton University Press, 163 pp., $26.95

http://www.nybooks.com/articles/arch...gination=false