Lenin's birthday: Kazakhstan should be grateful to the Great Leader — expert

Kazakhstan was formed as a state thanks to Vladimir Ilyich Lenin. Therefore, he should be grateful to the Great Leader. Kazakh political scientist Daniyar Ashimbayev wrote about this in his telegram channel.

"The next anniversary of the birth of Vladimir Lenin gives reason to once again recall his role and the role of the Bolsheviks in the history of Kazakhstan. It is clear that the modern ideological model borrows some Soviet values, but is largely based on the silence, denial or negativization of the Soviet period and the experience associated with it. At the same time, it should be recalled once again that the basis of the state, national and socio-economic construction, which ensured the formation of Kazakhstan as a modern social and agrarian-industrial state, is precisely the policy of the Soviet government and the Communist Party," the expert writes.

He notes that the Soviet national policy on the eastern outskirts was decolonization. And by this word, according to him, we mean not propaganda in the mass consciousness of the image of the victim nation with the replication of grievances and settling historical accounts, as modern liberal propaganda does, but full-fledged nation-building with full-fledged development of infrastructure corresponding to the metropolis model.

The expert stressed that an equally important aspect was the policy pursued by Lenin to combat chauvinism and nationalism, aimed at eliminating the division of Soviet peoples into varieties — a tendency characteristic of the "progressive" Western civilization in those years.

"Lenin is not in textbooks now, monuments to him have already been dismantled almost everywhere, and history has been rewritten for current ideological and economic tasks. But you need to remember: The decrees signed by Vladimir Ilyich are the basis of the existing statehood, national identity, ideological policy, industrial and social infrastructure. And the memory of him lives to a certain extent in environmental actions, which are traditionally tied to April 22," Ashimbayev concluded.