The Russian tragedy by Vadim Filatov (polar express read aloud TXT) 📕

Russian tragedy

Russian people became a victim of Russia.
There are two interesting books, written by a special correspondent of "Izvestia" Dmitry Sokolov-Mitrich. The books are entitled «The non-Tadjik girls, the non- Chechen boys» and «Enemies of the people». We are «the non-Tadjik girls, the non- Chechen boys», which were killed in 1990 in Dushanbe. And the enemies of the people are the Russian officials.
According to the Federal Agency of the state statistics the quantity of officials in today's Russia has exceeded 1 million 314 thousand persons, not including armies and power structures. It is in 4 times more than in the USSR.
The Russian bureaucracy was and remains essentially anti - Russian. The Russians were always considered as a material for state building. So the Russian historian of `19 century Vasily Kljuchevsky has noticed: «The state is chubby, and the people decayed». A nationality of a Russian official from immemorial times is a feeding trough, and his religions are the higher heads. The paradox consists in the following: Russian national consciousness is in opposition to the empire bearing a name of this nation. And the opposition is mutual, because our empire of Asian type assumes precipice between the people and the power.
«The Russians are incapable of self-organizing and cannot stand for themselves. Each of them is alone though in such multinational state as Russia is necessary to create national communities - first of all in Moscow. Only with such a way they could protect effectively their national interests in the politicy and in business, so as unique interests of the Russian officials, which are mainly non-national, are their personal interests»– so considers Lo Tszjanpin, the Chinese journalist.
Twenty years ago the most southern Russian community of the former USSR lived in Tajikistan – 437 thousand persons. I was born in Dushanbe too. When I was forced to move back to Russia, during some years I divided with my old mother-pensioner one tiny room in a hostel. When I lost my passport, a Russian woman-inspector of a passport office, who left Dushanbe in the late seventies, did not send inquiry about me to Tajikistan during half a year. She expected that I will render a "respect" to her. It characterizes condition of Russian solidarity – even among immigrants from Dushanbe.
«- Nadya, you hate Chechens? – No. Do you know why? I hate Russians. I consider that our tragedy is a history of treachery. At first we were betrayed by Russian politicians. Then we were betrayed by journalists who did not notice how we were killed … And then we were betrayed by relatives who did not start up us in their apartments». (D.Sokolov-Mitrich «Enemies of the people»). It is exactly so. My own older brother also does not let me enter his apartment because of his big-mouthed Tadjik wife who doe s not wish to start up me.
When the civil war in Tajikistan begun, almost all national diasporas has got support of their states– Uzbekistan, Kazakhstan, Germany, Israel.etc. Thrown to die for hunger Russian old women were really helped too… by the Catholic mission of Jesuits from Argentina. It is not casual to me that I always liked this country.
In 1993 when Wahhabites have suffered defeat in civil war, their leaders and ideological inspirers – democrats have plunged in a panic into the plane and ran to Moscow. The plane has sat down for refuelling in Ashkhabad, but local authorities have not let out any person from salon – the authorities of Turkmenia did not require Islamites. But Moscow has joyfully accepted them. Thus, the Tadjik poetess Gulruhsor Safieva, who was calling on meetings of 1990 to Russian pogroms till now lives in Moscow.
So one Russian inhabitant of Dushanbe has told: «If a nation does not support its own compatriots – it is a sick nation; if a state does not support its citizens – it is a sick state …» I has collected memoirs of Russian inhabitants of Dushanbe, though I at all do not trust that the patient is still live. Simply it is also my memory and a part of my life.

«In February of 1990, in a day of next anniversary of Islamic revolution in Iran, – there was a pogrom of Russian quarters in Dushanbe. Then was the murder in a broad daylight of the correspondent of ORT Nikulin, execution with a grenade cup discharge of the school bus with children of the Russian officers. Brutal punishment over the orthodox priest in Dushanbe, an arson of a temple, excess on cemeteries … Tajikistan has paid for madness of civil war, for national arrogance of visible oppositionists, which today occupying offices in the corridors of Tadjik power. Only where« exposers of Russian colonizers », ostensibly plundering the unfortunate Tadjik people have got to?»
Vladimir Klenov

«In October, 1991, when Anatoly Sobchak, the Russian democrat, has told well-known: «There are not Russians here, there are communists», democratic forces arranged multimonthly sedentary meetings where there were also such slogans: «Russian! Do not leave– we need slaves!» . All this together taken accurately falls under genocide definition. A genocide of Russian diaspora in Tajikistan in 1990th years».
Peter Chernov

«Such people are called as a cattle – which envy, hate me. And this line, by the way, is peculiar to Russians».
Xenia Sobchak, the TV presenter.

«February of 90th. I have received a bad mark at school. As a punishment I was not let to go for a tennis next day. It has come, the next day. The alarm soared in air since the morning. The grandfather, the director of 31st school has called to be convinced that all of us are at home and has told that we did not leave far from the house because something terrible approaches. The uncle has called. He called from hotel in which girls covered him from furious crowd. The crowd of Tadjiks went and destroyed all on their way. They beat all Russians and the Tadzhik girls which were not in national clothes. Time and a place of terrible events – around stadium. Sometimes it is useful to receive bad marks. Our friend, the Tadjik, the ambulance surgeon has rushed to rescue our uncle. The Tadjik rescued not the Russian from Tadjiks. Our uncle has lost an eye, but he was alive».
The Russian school - girl

«A trolley bus have been stopped near our house, swells have dropped in the car, the Tadjiks were released, Russians – beaten. Каrina was a small, thin Armenian girl, she can be accepted as a Tadzhik – dark-haired, black-eyed, she became evident not at once for those who hunted on Russians. They beat not her - they have attacked on her girl-friend who was on the seventh month of pregnancy. Каrina has covered her with herself, and blow has had to her in a neck».

«… Anton Antonovich could not get home from work: together with the assistant to the dean Olga he left University, but had not time to ascend on a viaduct (the long bridge which connected territory of our faculty with street Putovsky), when one old Tadjik has told to him: « not to go there because Russians were killed there do not go there.
– But it is necessary for us to get home, and there are not any other road.
And this old man has led them through slums, bypassing main streets hammered with insurgents. But they left only to Olga’s house, and Anton Antonovich has been compelled to sit out some days there with all her family and a student – girl who left the case together with them».

«We also remember «amusing»cases: the crowd of insurgents has gone to circus – it apparently, entered into number of objects which, under their plan, should be grasped. Someone from workers of circus has cried: «If you take still a step – we will let out tigers». The crowd has stopped, but someone has not believed. The resourceful circus actor has cried: « Vasja, let out tigers! »– and the crowd has run away …»
Nina Olhovaja «The Wild field», № 6, 2004 (Donetsk)

«Next day the piece of road near textile industrial complex has turned to a hell. Gangs of Islamic fundamentalists blocked highway. From buses arriving from two parties and trolley buses they pulled out Russian women which were raped and at bus stops and on a football ground near the road, whilemen were severely beaten. Anti-Russian pogroms have swept on all city. «Tajikistan for Tadjiks!» and «Russian, run away to the Russia!» – such were main slogans of thugs. The Russians were plundered, raped and killed even in their own apartments. Thugs did not spare children. Such изуверства Tajikistan did not know such a cruelty yet. The city and republican authorities have become puzzled, but townspeople search for an exit and find it. In living districts self-defence groups are formed, and next morning on February, 14th all city left on streets. Human chains have surrounded borders of districts. Having received rigid repulse in several city districts, gangsters have not dared any more to attack. And pogroms have stopped … October of 92nd. Dushanbe was captured by Wahhabites. This very day, a communist in the past and then a democrat M.Mirrahimov, acting on national TV, declares all Russians living in Tajikistan as hostages. But we were not frightened, because have got used to thought about possibility of death. In April 93rd my wife and I have come to the Russian embassy. The diplomat caused by the Russian fellow-commando with the automatic machine on a breast, in reply to our request for registration of the Russian citizenship has explained us the following: as we live in republic constantly, so according to the statement of Tadjik government, we are citizens of Tajikistan. Our arguments: we were born in Russia, the citizenship choice depends only on our will – the diplomat did not recognize as convincing».
V.Starikov. A long road to Russia// «The General newspaper». 2001. № 50, on December, 13-19th

«It was very terrible. Even adult people have become puzzled. On Putovsky, before our eyes, a trolley bus was burnt, without having let people out from there … And nearby – the crowd has torn to pieces the major … This terrible show – crowd … Then when all has subsided, my friend and I went there … there were only wet stains and clothes … a skeleton, the trunk – was not anything … all has been broken off, scattered, crushed …
There were ten thousands of such cases. But there was not any message in mass-media about it. All has passed not noticed. The president of republic has acted on TV. He has told that can not help Russian brothers – he does not supervise a situation in a city. We were legislative before this. We were beaten, and we were silent. And after this performance we have felt that it is better to die in struggle for us, protecting our families than to be hammered rams in own houses, with the cut throats …
Everybody poured out on streets. Each area has become organized, and it was surprising. There was no central staff after all. And when we have defended ourselves at night, uninvited visitors had to leave city – they returned back, to their settlements in mountains. And the power has returned. We have returned the power in a city. It could hardly be trusted: the simple unarmed persons have defended themselves against strong enough armed groups …»
Anatoly Balashov, the organizer of Russian refugee community in Borisoglebsk.
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