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30 years under the dictatorship... my heart is with the people and I hope for the best for the country!
by democracy 5y ago
30 years under the dictatorship... my heart is with the people and I hope for the best for the country!
- osipov 5y ago
- BurningFrog 5y agoBefore that 70 years of communist dictatorship. Before that centuries of Russian Tsar dictatorship, and so on...
- q1w2 5y agoThe most likely government to be installed will be an islamic state, so I would not be very hopeful. Also, Russia might intervene militarily and annex the norther half of the country - as they have recently made comments that the Soviets gave them too much land. It is far more likely this will end badly for the average Kazakh citizen.
- yladiz 5y agoWhat do you mean by Islamic state? Something like in Iran, or something like in Turkey? I'm not sure what your sources are but if you mean something like in Iran it's extremely unlikely to happen in Kazakhstan. Russia taking some land is more likely but Russia would likely prefer better relations with Kazakhstan due to their gas and economic ties, and annexing that land isn't really that important compared to Ukraine.
- q1w2 5y agoSomething like the Taliban in Afghanistan.
- int_19h 5y agoKazakhstan is one of the most secular countries in Central Asia (20% self-reported as "irreligious" in a 2019 poll), so I find that rather unlikely.
- levvolk 5y ago> The most likely government to be installed will be an islamic state,.. The suffix "-stan" is very suggestive, isn't it? After all, there are Pakistan and Afghanistan -- massively Islamic countries. Similarly, Thailand ends in "-land", yet no one thinks Thailand is in Europe despite the fact that England, Switzerland and Poland are all European. Islam in Kazakhstan is non-pure, non-literalist and heavily tinged/influenced by local shamanistic traditions and old Soviet ways unlike that in Middle East. Pure Islam in Kazakhstan would look jarringly out of place.