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2023-11-08 Caucasus/Russia/Central Asia
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Dagestanis need to be returned to the Middle Ages
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Direct Translation via Google Translate. Edited.
by Petr Akopov
[REGNUM] “Wild people, children of the mountains”—this is roughly how many assessed the unrest in Dagestan, that same pogrom at the Makhachkala airport, where indignant masses were looking for Jews arriving from Israel. This is just some kind of new Middle Ages - with Jewish pogroms and excited crowds. It is necessary to roughly punish, and then enlighten - that is, enlightenment must replace the wild Middle Ages. Which never came to the Dagestan peoples (more precisely, it came during the Soviet years, and then was replaced by regression and a rollback to wild morals).
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The problem is what is considered important in the Middle Ages.
If aggressive xenophobia, impenetrable ignorance, collective suggestibility and other “relics of the past”, then, of course, the Dagestan peoples urgently need to be saved from this.
However, all this exists in modern society, urbanized and educated - some are more common in the West, some in the East, but there is no difference in the degree of suggestibility and controllability of Pakistani and American society: except that some listen to mullahs, and others social networks, pastors or YouTube commentators. Xenophobia takes different forms in the Islamic world and in the American one - but if Gaza has now provoked an attack of acute hatred towards Americans in the Muslim world, Islamophobia is growing in the United States itself. All this, of course, can be called the “new Middle Ages.” But posthumanism is also possible.
If we consider the main thing in the Middle Ages to be carefully preserved traditions and way of life, non-acceptance of consumption as the main value, and the indisputability of the authority of elders, then God forbid we try to eradicate it in Dagestan. Because along with such a Middle Ages, Dagestan itself with its huge diversity of peoples will disappear, because they have been preserved precisely thanks to a way of life that has not changed for centuries.
The abolition of the Dagestan Middle Ages will devastate the gorges in which dozens of different peoples live. They will dissolve into the general urban mass, forget their language and customs. They will be cut off from their way of life, from tradition - and this is precisely what preserves nations, especially small ones. There are countless examples of this in world history.
Most Dagestanis no longer live in mountain villages; they moved to the plains, to the coast, to Makhachkala and surrounding cities. Having begun back in the Soviet years, urbanization in Dagestan acquired an avalanche-like character after the collapse of the Union. Now everyone there wants more money, consumption and pleasure.
And it is precisely such a city dweller in the first or second generation who becomes the best breeding ground for the emergence of a “new post-humanistic Middle Ages” - devoid of traditions, values (except for success and money), respect and understanding of the complex diversity of Dagestan reality. This is called lumpenization - when a person has already broken away from his native environment and culture, but has not yet settled into a new one.
Let us note in parentheses what is also very important - what kind of new culture, but this is not what we are talking about now.
Russians also went through lumpenization: at the end of the 19th and beginning of the 20th centuries, masses of peasants poured into the cities, quickly radicalized and becoming proletarians. And in the cities they were brainwashed by radical intelligentsia. As a result, a revolution occurred that replaced the entire system, the entire socio-economic structure.
For many years after the revolution, most Russians lived in small towns and villages. And only post-war urbanization changed everything - by the 80s, the majority of Russians moved from villages to cities. The Russian traditional way of life began to disappear, and the collapse of the Union became a severe blow to the remaining strong villages and small towns. The Russians found themselves cut off from their usual way of life, although they survived as a people and a civilization.
If we draw parallels with today's Dagestan, the situation will be similar. There are a lot of young hot men who, having moved to cities (or being born in them in the first generation), at the same time really want to earn money, and are dissatisfied with the current way of life (in which all positions and money are in the hands of the older generation, representatives of other clans or nations and etc.). And then there are radical young educated Muslims who tell these hot guys that the existing way of life is not only unfair, but also contrary to the Koran. This means that it – and the state that established it – must be fought in every possible way. Here you have, if not a revolutionary, then a rebellious situation...
But if for Russians the process of urbanization nevertheless proceeded gradually, over the course of centuries (albeit at a wildly accelerated pace in recent decades), then for Dagestanis the break from the traditional way of life occurs rapidly, before the eyes of a couple of generations.
In addition, the urbanization of the Russian population took place during the years of Soviet power, that is, under the conditions of a policy of equality and justice, the construction of an intangible-oriented society with a clear value system. Dagestanis find themselves in cities in a situation of destruction of the communal structure and the priority of hedonistic-consumer values.
Well, it is very important that the Russians are still a large, imperial people - and many Dagestani nationalities number several tens of thousands of people. And, once in Makhachkala, not to mention Moscow, they, in the second or third generation, will first lose their large families, then their language, and then their national identity itself.
To save the Dagestanis, it is necessary to return (or rather, keep) them to the Middle Ages - that is, preserve the traditional way of life. And among most Dagestan peoples it is associated with mountains. Avars and Tabasarans, Dargins and Rutulians should not only preserve their ancestral villages as museums - a significant part of these peoples should live in them.
Yes, it is difficult and expensive - you need to support the social sphere, preserve or create opportunities for income (primarily in agriculture, but tourism can also play a role).
But if you don’t encourage people to return to the mountains and create conditions for them to stay there, in the very foreseeable future the Dagestani peoples will dissolve in the melting pot of urbanization. Nothing good will come from this either for Dagestan or for Russia as a whole - the flourishing complexity of our common civilization will become dimmer and poorer.
Not to mention the fact that a superficial, unrooted, urban dweller cut off from his native culture will always be a convenient plaything of passions, his own and those of others, directed against our big country. This applies, of course, not only to Dagestanis, but this applies especially to them: due to their Muslim and mountain passionarity.
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