Freedom for Nations! Freedom for the Individual!
Bashkir Friends!
Greetings from the Anti-imperial Bloc of Nation, which unites the efforts of enslaved nations in the struggle for their freedom, for the decolonization of the Evil Empire.
Today, on the Day of the Sovereignty of Bashkortostan, we send you sincere congratulations and wishes to achieve real independence from Moscow.
Today, the leaflet with which we illustrate our appeal to you is exactly 80 years old. 80 years ago, the Ukrainian Insurgent Army appealed to you and other enslaved nations with words of support, with wishes that it would not miss its historic chance to re-establish independent states and break the Moscow prison of nations.
We wish that you will find full, real Independence, not fiction on paper. After all, over time, even your Declaration of Sovereignty has been turned into a meaningless text by Moscow, as it has been drowning your aspirations for freedom in blood for more than 200 years, robbing your natural resources, sending the sons of Bashkortostan to bloody wars of aggression, turning them into “cannon fodder” for the victory of Moscow imperialism. Even the memory of your national heroes is erased from history.
Who remembers now that only from 1662 to 1835 the Bashkortostan revolted against Russia 10 times, fighting for their freedom?
Who remembers how in 1919 the RSFSR recognized the independence of Bashkiria and then occupied you, how in 1992 Russia once again deceived you and other enslaved nations, signed a “federal agreement for 10 years” and “forgot” to extend it?
Isn’t it true that it has been 11 years since Moscow lost any right to rule over you?
Who is speaking out loud today that thousands of Bashkirs have been mobilized into the Russian occupying army to ingloriously lay their heads in the steppes of Ukraine instead of building a new independent Bashkortostan?
“You are far away, my homeland!
I would return to my native land,
I’m in shackles, Bashkirs!
My paths sweep the snow,
But in the spring the snow melts,
I’m not dead, Bashkirs!” – wrote the hero of your people Salavat Yulaev.
Today your people are in Moscow shackles. But the one who fights for Freedom will definitely defeat them.
Bashkirs!
Your nation tolerates centuries-old oppression of the empire: neither tsarist, nor Soviet, nor Putin’s Russia has ever been a friend of the Bashkortos. Repression, genocide by hunger, deportations from native places, national humiliation, shameful death in a war for someone else’s interests – this is what she paid and pays for your loyalty.
The only path to liberation is the collapse of Russia and the creation of independent states of free nations.
Create foci of resistance to the imperial regime in your homeland.
Do not send your sons to the imperial army, and advise those who are already there to join the Armed Forces of Ukraine with weapons in hand. It is in the Ukrainian Armed Forces that national battalions and regiments of oppressed nations are now being formed and are already fighting on the side of Ukraine and the entire civilized world.
The time will come and they will become the basis of your Bashkir army, which, in alliance with the armies of other nations, will destroy the Russian empire and win the true independence of Bashkortostan.
Down with Putin’s evil empire!
Long live the free states of the enslaved nations.
Down with the war!
Long live peace and the friendship of nations!
Anti-imperial Block of Nations
Kyiv, 11 October, 2023
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