"...A little more than a decade after the First Turcological Congress [presenting the Latinised alphabets], many of its participants—including Baitursynov, who

"...A little more than a decade after the First Turcological Congress [presenting the Latinised alphabets], many of its participants—including Baitursynov, who remains a national hero in Kazakhstan—were executed over accusations of nationalism." It seems that the whole Soviet "indigenisation" project was a mere, however protracted and disguised, effort to identify the local cultural and indigenous leaders and to subsequently terminate them. It rather seems consistent with an imperial safeguarding action. For all empires, the indigenous identity is a direct threat. Especially so this is in the case of russian empire in whatever reincarnation. This only underscores the absurdity of this conglomerate of forcefully "united" people - not allowing them to develop on their own, yet having not much in common in order to being able to effectively lead them. Let alone, lead where?? I wonder who is considered a ruling class in the present day russia?