Sarah Cameron - The Hungry Steppe: Famine, Violence and Making of Soviet Kazakhstan
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Hi! I know you haven't posted in a couple months so I don't know if you'll see this, but I have followed you for a long time and I really appreciate your candor in talking about Qazaqstan. I'm so glad you choose to share your perspective here. It can be very difficult to learn about Qazaqstan in an authentic way outside of first person perspectives, especially with the lack of resources in English.
I am currently working on an assignment for a class where I need to right 1000 words about a country I want to go to, and specifically about the deep culture (people’s attitudes, beliefs, and core values, including attitudes towards gender, social status, age, raising children, perception of time, the role of family) and classroom and educational culture. I immediately thought of your blog as a great resource that goes beyond surface culture like cuisine, clothing and holidays.
I would like to dig through your blog and some other Qazaqstan focused blogs on here as one part of my research, and I hope you're okay with me citing you as a source! Additionally, if there's anything more you would like to share about these topics if you do see this that you think I should include, I would be super grateful for your contribution! It's not a super academically rigorous assignment, but I want to represent Qazaq & Qazaqstani culture well.
Appreciate you so much, hope you're well!
Hey,
Thanks for the message!
Glad to know you still find the info here useful.
Sure, feel free to cite this blog as a source, I would be honoured, actually 😄
Not sure if I'll be adding anything else anytime soon though. Still, I hope you'll find something citable for your assignment here.
Good luck with that, and cheers ✌️
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A great deal; you are good to those who are good to you. It is all I ever desire to be. If people were always kind and obedient to those who are cruel and unjust, the wicked people would have it all their own way; they would never feel afraid, and so they would never alter, but would grow worse and worse. When we are struck at without a reason, we should strike back again very hard; I am sure we should - so hard as to teach the person who struck us never to do it again.
Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre
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My R6 OC Altyn
Yep, she is from Qazaqstan(Kazakhstan)
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Both the Soviet and the German empires have achieved their genocidal goals through the destruction of local institutions and networks. Both were claiming they were doing it for the sake of "creating the better world". Both were painting the victims of their policy as "the necessary sacrifice". One regime was destroyed, and has become synonymous with evil. The other was left to live, and now people are still defending their actions as being "good in theory, but failed in practice due to human factor".
[source: Sarah Cameron - The Hungry Steppe: Famine, Violence and Making of Soviet Kazakhstan]
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