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  • I understand the outrage. But I will expand on this thought in the second part. I would appreciate it if you read it tomorrow.

  • I survived the war

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  • Unfortunately, even within our country, there was no clear, well-organized national policy. Open nationalism was not allowed in the country. However, in the republics, the titular nations restricted the advancement of representatives of non-titular nations in all areas of work and service. I was born and raised in Georgia. The Georgian people are a wonderful people, but those who managed to climb into the elite somehow became infected with Nazism. For an Ossetian to achieve any success, they had to Georgianize their surname. That is why, like any other Ossetian, all my relatives on my mother's side changed their surname from Dzigoyte to Dzebisashvili, and on my father's side to Chigoshvili. I had to serve in Azerbaijan for about 6 years. There, they hated Armenians. No Armenian with an Armenian surname could be found. The situation was roughly the same in Central Asia. And the central authorities paid no attention to any of this. The national policy was aimed at creating a unified "Soviet people," and the culture of our peoples was supposed to be national in form and socialist in content. In other words, we rejected the national culture created by the peoples over centuries. And we got what we got: the instant collapse of the Soviet Union and rivers of blood that still flow without stopping. In my opinion, one of the serious reasons for the rise of Russophobia and Nazism in the former Soviet republics is the underestimation of the national pride of the peoples of the Soviet Union by the central authorities. This is also one of the serious reasons for the bloodshed in Ukraine.

  • What Kind of Russia Will We Leave Our Children? Patriotism Between History and Politics

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  • I was born in 1930, in a remote village in the mountains of South Ossetia. Until a certain age, I had no idea which country I lived in, or whether the political system was good or bad. But I saw nature. I interacted with people, and I read literature that urged me to love my homeland. I read about patriots, those who gave their lives to save the country. Only much later did I begin to understand whether our rulers were leading us with good or bad politics. And my patriotism was not dependent on their politics.

    As for Solzhenitsyn, he was a product of Khrushchev, who hated Stalin. Khrushchev had his reasons for that. At first, Solzhenitsyn wasn’t so aggressively opposed to the USSR, but when he realized the benefits of anti-Soviet sentiment, he became a fierce opponent. Yes, there were things to criticize about the USSR, including the camps. These things were new to all of us back then, and that’s why Solzhenitsyn became popular. But history cannot be viewed only from one side. Yes, there were the camps, but there was also the selfless, heroic labor of the Soviet people, who, in just 10 years, prepared the country to stand up against all of Europe’s military might.

    Solzhenitsyn even called for America to drop nuclear bombs on the USSR. Meanwhile, I was a colonel in the Soviet Army. That’s how I evaluate Solzhenitsyn’s position. Thank you

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    What Kind of Russia Will We Leave Our Children? Patriotism Between History and Politics

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    Power and Privilege: Why Those Who Please the Elite Thrive

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    Democracy or Deception? A Deep Dive into Russia's Election Legacy