Kazakhs and Jews. Almaz Braev

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СКАЧАТЬ freedom, equality, and justice; the Jews believed in themselves and their people. Or rather, they had exceptional faith. This cannot be called simple nationalism, which is known to the world relatively recently. How was it recently? Approximately, maybe 300 years. And the Jews had «nationalism» when no one yet knew what money, property, and the economy were (money has always been in human society, but not everyone). Because of the specific behavior because of the desire for isolation, many looked at Jews with suspicion. The Jews were locked up all the time, one might say, in their little world. More precisely, they gathered to perform a religious cult – others were jealously not allowed into this world. Do you want to marry Moisha’s daughter? Convert to Judaism – make a giyur. Keep the commandments of the Torah. And no more questions. In this sense, Jewish women have always been more zealous and submissive: they followed «don’t marry them» more strongly than men. (Well, they couldn’t, especially after the Babylonian captivity. Moreover, the priest Ezra ordered all Jews to divorce those who had got the «wrong» wife or the wrong husband in 70 years. And after all, everything was fulfilled. In order not to dissolve or disappear among other nations. But that was before our era. However, then, everything was repeated. Jews were being chased. Jews were oppressed. A lot has changed. But the fundamentals have remained the same. Today, the times are liberal, it seems, if we are talking about marriages. That is not the point. There is even an opinion that the USSR was destroyed, too, on purpose because there were many mixed marriages. What nonsense! We know that the USSR collapsed independently – see my book «Tradition Against Communism.» When the Russian Revolution took place in 1917, who was accused? No secrets, no Jews. When Russia became a democracy, who did it? Why are there solid oligarchs and bankers …There’s something wrong here. The oligarch Berezovsky said that Jews are more adapted to everything. What is, is. They are always ahead. Who are all newspaper editors in our area? Yes, what is there in the region – all over Kazakhstan. First, this is the so-called tabloid press, which provides a quick and guaranteed income. Could any Kazakh have guessed about the income? Could any Kazakh write about all sorts of «obscenities» – topics that ordinary people read? No, it’s not. The Kazakh will say: «Uyat.» Like, «It’s a shame.» Once, Mingrel Loria, provincial editor, told me: «If I print your philosophical opuses, my newspaper will have fifty readers.» And he’s right, unfortunately. Jews are immune, on the contrary, as it were. They know people. They know what people want. And Kazakhs are always interested in fame and honor – some kind of position. The Kazakhs hired editors to create an «illumination» of Kazakh democracy – the Kazakh showcase. Thirty years of independence have passed. And who are the editors? They’ve grown quite old. But they continue to depict full news counters for the Kazakhs. No, it’s not just Jews there. There are few Jews among the Kazakhs at all – this happened according to history. Basically, during the Great Patriotic War, intellectuals of all kinds moved from the western regions of the USSR to Tashkent and Alma-Ata, including professors, artists, and engineers. I looked at the teaching staff of the Aktobe Medical Institute when the first streams of Kazakh doctors were being prepared (my parents received diplomas in the first stream). Today, their children work well in human rights protection, first of all. In business, it’s kind of just supposed to be. Legal protection is always on the side of business.

      Moreover, even if the very first human rights defender stumbled, all Kazakhstani human rights defenders and, of course, international human rights protection actively stood up for him (no Kazakh dreamed of such protection, especially his small educational newspaper «Bak», «bak» in Kazakh is happiness, short for «bakyt». When it was closed, no one noticed, no one said anything. Except for my late comrade in the opposition, Andrei Klimonov. Because officials and rich Kazakhs, and indeed all Kazakhs, «rights and freedoms» are not in the first place. Officials and the new rich want more money, and ordinary Kazakhs want to compete or are busy looking for daily bread).

      Interestingly, all Jews used to be socialists, advocating equality and justice. Today, everyone is liberal. For human rights, for freedom. I will say that for a Kazakh and a Jew, freedom is something completely different (Kazakhs are paternal; they can lose everything if they are free). But the Kazakhs, again, as if they got into the first year and got excellent marks from the teachers. The Elbasy of the first one has already been replaced by the second president after thirty years of rule, and only liberals are on the air. Not Jews, and not Russians, but Kazakhs. These Democrats of the first wave have suffered a complete defeat and must sink through the ground, but again and again, the same faces. Kazakhs are liberals, piece pensioners + plus urban burghers from NGOs, which means that they receive money from the West for their views (bla- bla- bla), and they run ahead of the locomotive. We are liberals! We are Democrats! We are the best students! It looks somewhat comical. It causes nothing but irony. Everyone knows that money rules the whole world. But we want to demonstrate something. What do they say? A Kazakh without show-offs is a non-showy Kazakh. (This does not mean that «nagyz» Kazakh should be engaged exclusively in the glorification of ancestors).

      Chapter 7

      Unusual laws. 613

      «The closer a state is to falling, the more laws it has.»

      Cicero

      «The ruin is not in the closets, but in the heads.»

      Bulgakov. A dog’s heart

      Formal laws and regulations are laid down in codes.

      There are informal laws. They are more effective in conservative communities, among people who adhere to tradition.

      There are many informal laws. But much less than formal ones. However, it is believed that the more cultured and civilized a people are, the more formal laws they have.

      What happens if the conservative people «with traditions» have too much civilizational formality, and the laws do not work, after all, total corruption, mafia, and crime?

      What is an informal relationship? It’s when you’re to me, I’m to you. You and I are relatives, brothers – in – law, and classmates – we can always come to an agreement.

      What to do? How do you avoid «you to me, I to you»? How do you stop writing new laws that don’t work in such an environment?

      This means that there is no need to chase after «advanced countries»

      But let’s think about it. Let’s look back.

      Let’s compare it.

      To begin with, the history of all peoples is connected with religion. Moreover, the economic side, or what people were doing, directly impacted spiritual life.

      We Kazakhs are Muslims. Jews are adherents of Judaism. This, for example.

      The nomadic tribes of Central Asia did not immediately become Orthodox. The adoption of Islam stretched among the Nomads for five hundred years (more than five centuries). Moreover, the nomadic Turks were the main rivals of the same nomadic Arabs before the fall of the Western Turkic Khaganate. Well, intraspecific rivalry is much more cruel than interspecific rivalry – it has long been known if such a strange similarity of a nomadic «species» is appropriate here at all. In those days, the Arabs and Turks had cattle breeding as their primary occupation. Both the Nomadic Arabs and the Nomadic Turks had something to share. The question immediately creeps up: isn’t that why almost all Turks became Muslims? The Western Turkic Khaganate collapsed like the USSR. (When all the newly minted presidents who appeared after the collapse of the USSR republics immediately proclaimed the direction of «democracy.» They built communism, and afterward, they turned 180 degrees. This is all because the winners always dictate the direction: in the case of the USSR, it is the USA; in the competition of nomads, it is the Arabs). СКАЧАТЬ