Comrade_Colonel @ Comrade_Colonel @lemmy.ml Posts 3Comments 1Joined 1 yr. ago
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.