Once I was struck by one incident in Petropavlovsk. I was in the company of local young guys. We discussed some international football championship. One of them says: “We need to win one more game, and then we’ll leave the group.” I was surprised: “How to win? We have already lost everything and do not go anywhere.” …
Read moreGenocide is an act committed with intent to destroy, in whole or in part, any national, ethnic, racial, religious or other historically formed cultural and ethnic group.
I believe that at the beginning of the last century, against the Kazakhs and Ukrainians, the leadership of the Soviet Union did not use genocide. I did not see a single document that …
Read moreEvery year on May 9 Kazakhstan celebrates Victory Day.
However, recently the significance of this holiday began to cause many doubts.
I’ll try to understand each of them.
1. Was there any Patriotic war in general? World War II is known throughout the world. It was named Patriotic for propaganda purposes in the Soviet Union.
Yes, I agree. The same …
Read moreThe Day of Defenders of the Fatherland is celebrated in Kazakhstan on May 7.
Did you wonder why May 7?
What happened on this day?
Maybe the great Kazakh batyrs won some kind of historic victory over the Jungars? Or Amangeldy’s emancipating forces heroically died on this day? Or was there a turning point in the World War II on …
Read moreRecently an acquaintance went to her small Motherland – to one of the regional centers of Kazakhstan.
She got there on a celebration; her relatives celebrated the enrolment of a son in the first grade. It was not a wedding, not an anniversary. Simply, the son goes to school.
But in what a grandiose …
Read moreEverybody knows the history of St. George ribbons. The Order of St. George was established in 1769 to reward the Russian military in the war with Turkey. Then, in the Soviet Union it was canceled, and in 2000, Russia restored it.
The Guards ribbon was established in 1942 to designate guards units, formations and ships that …
Read moreDo we need to celebrate Victory Day?
I think that it is necessary. On that day, the Second World War and the Great Patriotic War ended with a defeat of fascism.
One nation, drugged by a charismatic leader, imagines that it is smarter, stronger, more cultured than everyone else, and can rule the …
Read moreThe Kazakh language is relatively young. It is constantly growing and forming. It received rapid development especially in recent years, after gaining independence. On a wave of euphoria from the getting independence from the former metropolis – Moscow – there was a tilt towards the direction of the epidemic invention of own words to new phenomena and objects. …
Read moreIn each Kazakh family there is a package with gifts on the far shelf in the closet or in the grandmother’s chest. It stores chapan, camisole, scarf or mat (tissue cut).
Nobody can remember where this or that object in this package came from. No one can throw away or use things from this package. They …
Read moreCourts in any country play a huge role in building the state itself. Without fair decisions of courts, citizens cease to trust official justice, that is, the state itself. And if citizens do not trust the state, then they begin to sabotage laws, cease to obey government bodies, try to seek justice in an illegal field.
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