Soviet treatment of Tatars or Kyrgyz people wasn’t stellar, either. At best, forcing them to “settle” and renounce their “savage” ways of living. The ussr inherited a lot of national and racial hierarchies that went largely unquestioned the same way that racial hierarchies went unquestioned in the west until later in the 20th century. Just because they didn’t have chattel slavery or plantations it doesn’t mean there wasn’t a racial dynamic to tsarist Russia, and later, the USSR.
A key part of critical support and credible analysis of past projects means understanding the shortcomings regarding subaltern people in AES states, and how they could’ve been addressed, had they had the tools we have right now.
Soviet treatment of Tatars or Kyrgyz people wasn’t stellar, either. At best, forcing them to “settle” and renounce their “savage” ways of living. The ussr inherited a lot of national and racial hierarchies that went largely unquestioned the same way that racial hierarchies went unquestioned in the west until later in the 20th century. Just because they didn’t have chattel slavery or plantations it doesn’t mean there wasn’t a racial dynamic to tsarist Russia, and later, the USSR.
A key part of critical support and credible analysis of past projects means understanding the shortcomings regarding subaltern people in AES states, and how they could’ve been addressed, had they had the tools we have right now.