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Kazakh Maidan

A former antimonopoly officer in the first government of independence, a "constructive" oppositionist in the past, today an obsessive pensioner once said: "The population of Kazakhstan is spread over a large territory." Thus, Svoik complained about the problems of the local opposition. In the wilds of His subconscious, a thought was still wandering, painfully searching for the reason. Another colleague of Svoik in the opposition case, the well-known human rights activist Zhovtis in Kazakhstan said: "Kazakhstan has a complex structure of society.." And that's it, nothing else.

This is where the «old» brains and past resources of the opposition stop developing and don’t give to others (with the help of solidarity of several editors, including a fellow countryman of Svoik). They’ve been saying the same thing for thirty years. But they don’t want to leave the stage. Even similar Democrats accuse Elbasy 1 that he had been in power for thirty years. Every such speaker (and for me, they just are populists) guards his feeding territory and Kazakhs still look at such people in the mouth. Former nomads love and trust old things in their apartments. Therefore, the new intelligentsia cannot break through its own people.)

And yet. A large territory really affects the much-anticipated riot but everyone will see their own interest in the steppe fire. It is unlikely that the old Democrats with thirty years of experience will like who will benefit from the Kazakh Maidan. No one will listen to these pensioners anymore. But liberal intellectuals and such like them do not mean the resources of a large territory at all and the ability or possibility of a chain reaction after a riot at its center. And nothing else. Although I suspect, I will repeat it again, they themselves do not understand what they are talking about. These are elderly oppositionists of advanced age. But they don’t want to give up the stage. (But nationalists replacing these talkers will simply not notice them then come)

In fact, counting on the emotions of the crowd, flaring up like dry brushwood – these are just stamps of the past. All pensioners live and think that the sky is not blue and the grass is not green now, but before all be better.

The fire that has broken out, so desirable for demagogues and populists, does not suit us because even pensioners live one day, and the petty ambitions of the townsfolk (how is it, these are not nomads, not Kazakhs? The market is crushing people, crushing them. Former Soviet intellectuals are no longer the people who swam in ready-made soup. Now it’s a selfish little thing) They are not interested in what will happen next. We are only interested in it. We are interested in what will happen, how the fire will burn, and how the people will warm up after.

This is just an introduction for a clearer explanation that a large territory is not a panacea for the Maidan. Moreover, the days of pensioners from a democracy of the 90s in Kazakhstan have passed.