Will the protests continue in Bashkortostan and what does commander Salavat Yulaev have to do with it?

The protests in Bashkortostan and Ufa caused a lot of noise in Russia. The last time rallies on the ethnic territory of the Bashkirs took place in the 18th century.

Political strategist Mikhail Sheitelman suggested Channel 24, will the demonstrations in Bashkiria be able to flare up again and start a chain reaction in other regions.

Will the protests in Bashkiria continue

The Bashkirs held one of the protests on the square of the national hero of Bashkortostan Salavat Yulaev, who in 1773 joined the peasant uprising under the leadership of Emelyan Pugachev, a native of the Ukrainian village of Zimovskaya.

The then driving force for Yulaev’s demonstration was the current situation: Russians settled on the territory of Bashkiria, who ruined the environment. And now local activist Fail Alsynov was detained because of his speech at a rally against gold mining, in which a close associate of Vladimir Putin, Arkady Rotenberg, may be involved.

I doubt that anything will encourage them to continue protesting. They haven’t done this for a long time, probably since the uprising of Salavat Yulaev. To revive national identity and rebel against the colonialists, it takes several days and more than one reason. A single spark cannot ignite a large flame. “This is a long process,” said the political strategist.

In addition, repression can stop the protesters. There are even already known cases when henchmen of the Putin regime searched for activists in their homes and put them in prison. Vladimir Putin borrowed this practice from Alexander Lukashenko. In 2020, the self-proclaimed president of Belarus dispersed waves of peaceful demonstrations against his regime, but is still persecuting every protester.

That is, they took notes, they come home, physically take away all the money and send them to jail. More than a million people came out to protest in Belarus. Everyone who did not escape was arrested. They will do the same with Bashkortostan. Repression will be applied against everyone, emphasized Mikhail Sheitelman.

It was similar in the USSR

According to Sheitelman, the population of Bashkiria is 30% indigenous people, 40% Russians, 30% Tatars. The Putin regime is deliberately relocating the Russian population to annexed territories in order to destroy national identity and “fan the flames” among peoples. to the Baltic countries, Kazakhstan, the Caucasus, Siberia and other territories. However, the settlers were able to rebel, and whether something similar will happen in Russia is still unknown. Bashkortostan and Ufa are a test layer that will show whether the common people are capable of resisting the Putin regime.