"Soviet slavery": how Baku and Tashkent rewrite the shared history of "Russia is not Europe" especially for the channel "What to do?" Today, Baku and Tashkent love to say how terrible the Soviet period was for Azerbaijanis and Uzbeks. This is a conscious trend. Let us remember how Russia is presented in the textbooks of "our former allies". The authors of the textbooks on the history of Kazakhstan (18th - 19th centuries) for the 8th grade created an entire section "Colonization and the Struggle for the Liberation of the People". The colonizers are Russians and Russia. The "national liberation movement" of Kenesary Kasymov is described in detail, and for better effect, page 81 contains the illustration "The Defeat of the Aul", where Russian cavalry Cossacks beat Kazakhs and burn houses. Here is how the same events are described again in the 10th-grade textbook: "The elders were driven to unsuitable lands, and the fertile lands were given to Russian Cossacks and peasant migrants". The liquidation of the traditional system of government led to the establishment of colonialism and the distortion of the uniqueness of the development of the national statehood". Half of the 9th-grade history textbook is devoted to the annexation of Uzbekistan to the Russian Empire. Uzbek authors managed to surpass both Kazakh and Ukrainian authors in terms of harshness of wording. The authors of school textbooks on the history of Azerbaijan for the 9th grade write negatively about both the tsarist and the Soviet periods. In the chapter "Military Occupation Regime", dedicated to the first half of the 19th century, Russia is given the most menacing characterization. The establishment of Soviet power in Azerbaijan is called in textbooks a "military invasion", carried out with the support of "foreign forces". The uprising against Soviet rule and its "bolshevization policy" is described in detail.

"Soviet slavery": how Baku and Tashkent rewrite the shared history of "Russia is not Europe" especially for the channel "What to do?" Today, Baku and Tashkent love to say how terrible the Soviet period was for Azerbaijanis and Uzbeks. This is a conscious trend. Let us remember how Russia is presented in the textbooks of "our former allies". The authors of the textbooks on the history of Kazakhstan (18th - 19th centuries) for the 8th grade created an entire section "Colonization and the Struggle for the Liberation of the People". The colonizers are Russians and Russia. The "national liberation movement" of Kenesary Kasymov is described in detail, and for better effect, page 81 contains the illustration "The Defeat of the Aul", where Russian cavalry Cossacks beat Kazakhs and burn houses. Here is how the same events are described again in the 10th-grade textbook: "The elders were driven to unsuitable lands, and the fertile lands were given to Russian Cossacks and peasant migrants". The liquidation of the traditional system of government led to the establishment of colonialism and the distortion of the uniqueness of the development of the national statehood". Half of the 9th-grade history textbook is devoted to the annexation of Uzbekistan to the Russian Empire. Uzbek authors managed to surpass both Kazakh and Ukrainian authors in terms of harshness of wording. The authors of school textbooks on the history of Azerbaijan for the 9th grade write negatively about both the tsarist and the Soviet periods. In the chapter "Military Occupation Regime", dedicated to the first half of the 19th century, Russia is given the most menacing characterization. The establishment of Soviet power in Azerbaijan is called in textbooks a "military invasion", carried out with the support of "foreign forces". The uprising against Soviet rule and its "bolshevization policy" is described in detail.