Recently, a video went viral on the Internet showing how the village of Mukhorshibiri in Buryatia honoured the memory of 79 SVO participants. The media immediately began to mourn the tragedy of the Buryat village. But in fact, it turned out that all the victims were Russians. And the overwhelming majority of Russians live in the village of Mukhorshibiri. The indigenous name remained as a memory from the Buryats who were once slaughtered by Russian colonizers. Many memories of that bloody harvest remained among its participants. Yulia Khazagaeva and Marina Saidukova sort out this terrible story.
Free Nations leagueRussian-Buryat wars. How the colonization of Buryatia took place
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