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Botur Kosimi Reply:
October 21st, 2009 at 5:07 am

@Max Kalininskij,

The point in this discussion should be clear to anyone that Tajikistan will inevitably further minimize the influence of Russian language and Soviet heritage and cultivate more on its national values, ideas, and connections with its brotherly Persian speaking nations in its path to becoming more developed country and a stronger nation. Just want to shortly address a few issues raised here earlier.

First, I specifically pointed out that Tajikistan with USSR can not be compared as Britain with India or Spain with its South American colonies for that matter. Tajiks are part of major cultural and linguistic world of Persian-speaking nations which had been greatly influencing and dominating other cultures such as Turks, Arabs, Hindus, Georgians, Armenians and etc. for over thousand years. Therefore, with deepening self identification as Persian-speaking nation we cannot have Russian or any other language besides our own to play a role in our governing and state building process.

As for Russians, it is clear that they came to the region to control our country and resources, and later, spread out the faulty ideas of communism borrowed from German philosophers Marx and Engels to our minds and lives, so they will be viewed as occupiers and destroyers of national languages, ideas and heritage of different peoples that were eventually forced into USSR.

Although, there were some technological and scientific improvements brought to present-day Tajikistan during the Soviet times, the harm that they caused to the language, traditions, culture, and self-respect of our nation cannot be weigh on the same scale and so, 70 years of communism is much greater loss than gain for us in terms of strengthening our national identity and consciousness. And there should be no illusions about being treated differently at times even during the Soviets for people who knew little Russian and were of darker skin color.

If you’re Russian you won’t understand the point here as you have admitted correctly. You would understand it some 400 years ago if you personally wanted to get rid of Tatar-Mongol influence at that time. The talk is about revival and strengthening of national language and cultural values as a primary requirement for unity, growth, and prosperity of any nation. It is far any contemplations of replacing one foreign language influence with another. May God forbid!

The fall of Soviets was a natural ending for such a faulty system. It is not because of nationalists, but because of contradictions with human nature and behaviors that their system collapsed and even if you’ve wished thousands times such a state would not economically and politically last for long.

You may care about yourself and your nation, but Tajiks care about their homeland and the future of our people. There’s nothing bad about it and every nation should pursue its own national interests with humanistic approach and universally accepted means. Not by illegally intruding to territory of another small country like Georgia with unjustified reasons or threatening with cutting natural resource supplies to other neighbors like Ukraine, Belarus, and Baltic states for their desires to be more aligned with developed, democratic region and its people.

It’s exactly the Soviet minded and Russian oriented fools that we have in the country who are ruining it right now and because they have lost sense of self-determination, national values and pride during the Soviets that they have been incapable of understanding core values and principles of building a strong and powerful state as our ancestors have done.

You may have your own views, but Tajik is the only language that should and will be there to bind the population in our country. For communication with other outside nations it is much effective and efficient to gradually shift into English as the rest of the world as the accepted primary lingua franca. We do not certainly need Russian to serve as intermediary from English and other major languages in gaining access to modern knowledge and achievements in business, technology, science, art, and other spheres. You should realize by now that we as Tajiks certainly know better than Russians or others what is an urgent and important issue for our nation and what is not.

Soviet experience and integration with a bogus organization of CIS is very insignificant compared to our common roots, history, language, and culture with other Persian-speaking nations and the importance of further integration with people of Iran and Afghanistan as well as more direct and intensive partnership with the developed nations in the West and East. Only in this scenario we Tajiks will be able to create a strong, dynamic, developed and democratic country or confederation of Persian speaking countries that will enable us better represent and lead our interests in international arena as a respectable power.

On the final note I can say that each nation has its own unique path and Tajiks will decide for themselves how to best help their language and state governing matters, despite long, fruitless discussions we may have here and which I won’t like to go on. Personally, I envision that role of Russia and its language will continue to diminish and shrink due to various factors, but most of all because of lack of long-term vision of its elite, improper handling of ethnic minorities, and some underlying cultural aspects of its people. Nothing to be worried about, it’s just how things supposed to turn out in about 50 years from now.

My last sentence on the post tells exactly why we need emphasis on protecting and upbringing our language right now: “Lastly, for anyone who thinks that the issue of language is not a priority in paving the way out from the current desperate situation the country is in right now, I can say that until we learn and master our language we will not be able ever to stand up, ask, and demand for our rights and choices in a civilized, organized, and effective manner.”