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Post by TheRomanSlayer on Feb 27, 2021 7:31:50 GMT
Chapter Thirty-Nine: The Second Russian Civil War Part Fourteen
LENINGRAD COMES UNDER SIEGE BY NATIONAL REDEMPTION ARMY, REPORTS OF RED ARMY MUTINIES CONFIRMED BY SOVIET GOVERNMENT OFFICIALS
The Sun
June 23, 1993
Leningrad, (Breakaway) RUSSIAN SFSR – Leningrad, the place where the Bolshevik Revolution had broken out, is under attack by the National Redemption Army, as the city’s inhabitants have started to flee in anticipation of the battle that is coming ahead. Alexander Lebed, who now commands most of the NRA’s Western Theater forces that were merged from the Northern, Southern, Central, and Western Group of Forces, have split his troops, with the Northern and Central Group of Forces recalled from Eastern Europe, to lay siege to Leningrad, while the Southern and Western Group of Forces, along with volunteers from the former Warsaw Pact forces under the command of Mieczyslaw Debinski, have gone ahead and began to lay siege to the Soviet capital, Moscow. Earlier before the NRA had converged on Leningrad, Rosgvardiya troops and Justice Brigade paramilitary units have secured the entire region around Lake Ladoga, to prevent Red Army reinforcements from arriving inside the city. With most of the Soviet Air Force bombers and fighters now moving towards the Turkestan Military District, it is only a matter of time before the National Redemption Army captures the city. However, Alexander Lebed’s orders to surround the city and lay siege to it would prove to be his undoing if it were done incorrectly.
“We have come too far to fail now, and with the momentum on our side, we will eventually prove victorious,” Lebed comments in front of his troops while giving a speech on the importance of Leningrad’s capture. “Once we take Leningrad, then we will have surrounded the loyalists and Moscow will soon fall.”
Much of Leningrad’s defenses were left to KGB officer Vladimir Kryuchkov, who was appointed acting garrison commander of the city, as much of the Red Army officer corps still fighting for the Soviet loyalist government had started to relocate to Central Asia, now that the Russian SFSR had all but seceded from the Soviet Union, having declared itself sovereign within the Union. At the same time, the Russian Provisional Government had relocated back to Sverdlovsk from Krasnoyarsk after the last Soviet loyalist stronghold in Siberia, the town of Shadrinsk, had fallen to the National Redemption Army. Therefore, the entirety of the Siberia regions had now come under the control of the Russian Provisional Government, who soon took over the reins of government of the Russian SFSR.
“It is only a matter of time before we liberate Petrograd and Moscow from the Soviet loyalists, and once we capture those cities, we will move on towards Central Asia, and finish off the USSR, once and for all!” Gennady Burbulis said in a speech he made in front of joyous civilians when the leadership of the Russian Provisional Government had returned to Sverdlovsk on June 12. “The Soviet Union will die soon, and in its place, a democratic Russia will rise to succeed where the Soviets had failed!”
--- MOSCOW UNDER ATTACK AS NATIONAL REDEMPTION ARMY FORCES CAPTURE KRASNAYA POLYANA AND TULA
Vancouver Sun
January 4, 1994
Moscow, (Breakaway) RUSSIAN SFSR – In a scene reminiscent of Nazi Germany’s Operation Typhoon, the plan to capture the Soviet capital of Moscow, the National Redemption Army had launched a pincer movement attack on the areas surrounding Moscow. One section of Alexander Lebed’s forces, under the command of Sergei Ivanov, had struck at the city of Zelenograd, to cut off the remaining supply lines connecting Leningrad with Moscow. The other force, commanded by Polish commander of the Warsaw Pact Volunteer Legion, Mieczyslaw Debicki, had moved to capture the city of Tula, where most of the Soviet arms industry is located. Like their predecessors before them, much of the Soviet weapons factories had moved eastwards, but unlike the last time, they did not move much of their production to the Ural Mountains, but to Central Asia. The operation to capture Moscow had been slow in the making, as much of the supply routes had to be secured by both Rosgvardiya and the Justice Brigades, while in Ukraine and Belarus, local paramilitaries there had to conduct a mop up operation against Soviet loyalist holdouts that continued to attack the pro-independence forces.
“The irony of this battle is that, unlike 1612, we are not coming to Moscow as conquerors and occupiers, but rather, as liberators,” comments General Debicki, who references the rare moment when Moscow was occupied by a foreign army, in this case the armies of the former Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth. “The Soviets have nowhere to go, but in Central Asia, and by the time we are done liberating most of the Soviet Union from communism, we will have avenged the deaths of all the victims of communist terror.”
Any chances of the troops from the Turkestan Military District to relieve Moscow is zero, due to the rebel presence in Astrakhan, as well as the ongoing civil war within the Central Asian republics, plus the recent Chinese military intervention in the region. More recently, the progress that Al-Qaeda had made into expanding their base of operations in Central Asia had gone beyond Turkmenistan and Uzbekistan. Under the command of Abdullah Yusuf Azzam’s second in command, Ayman al-Zawahiri, Al-Qaeda had begun to expand into Tajikistan, to take advantage of the ongoing mini-civil war there, between pro-Tajik independence fighters tied to the Islamic Renaissance movement there, and the Soviet loyalist forces guarding the pro-Soviet Tajik government.
Even during the National Redemption Army’s siege of the Soviet capital, the Soviet loyalist forces refused to surrender, even going as far as to conscript civilians into defending the capital from the rebels, as Muscovites were given various kinds of weapons to fire at any incoming NRA soldier. Unfortunately for the Soviet loyalists, the frequency of the KGB’s capture of civilians attempting to escape from the Soviet capital had not gone unnoticed, as more NRA officers and soldiers are setting up makeshift cafeteria tents where they can feed any civilian lucky enough to get past the KGB guards that were there to prevent any more defections from disillusioned civilians. In one report confirmed by a Rosgvardiya officer, he spotted three corpses that indicated that an execution had occurred recently, and the KGB agent who shot them was being chased by vengeful Muscovites who knew the three executed civilians.
--- “Out of all the Soviet republics within the Union, only the Central Asian republics have shown their steadfast loyalty to our cause, as even the Russian SFSR had abandoned the legacy of Lenin and Stalin. Even as I speak, our agents had to tear down Lenin’s Mausoleum to relocate his coffin, while the rebellious gaggle, led by that damned neo-Vlasovite, Alexander Lebed, had continued to bomb the Soviet capital to destroy most of our morale. However, like Comrade Stalin before me, I choose not to surrender. Most of the troops that we have left began to march in a parade on Red Square, as they go forth into battle. I know all too well that we must rely on old veterans, the youth of the Komsomol, and even the women from the Soviet working class, must be armed, trained on a short notice, and be ready to battle. We are now in a situation worse than our grandparents and great-grandparents during the Great Patriotic War, and ironically, the situation closer to the lair of the fascist beast who resided in Berlin. We have become the Hitlerites, stuck within the capital, as the neo-Vlasovite rabble have taken the role of the victorious Red Army soldiers who stormed into Berlin and hoisted the victory banner on top of the Reichstag. The irony is disgusting, I could barely stand the stench of this kind of hypocrisy. At the same time, many of our loyal soldiers of socialism have retreated to Central Asia, where they will rebuild what is left of the Soviet Union. We are also the socialist Rome, who now must recognize the People’s Republic of China, which has embraced the role of the socialist Byzantium, even when the Vlasovite Ostrogoths are at the gates of the capital. I fear that the so-called new Russia will enter a new Dark Age of capitalist exploitation and vassalage at the hands of the Western capitalist powers, which will take advantage of the weakness of the new Russian state to impose its domination on the entire world. I honestly hope that even during the potential collapse of Soviet power, the reactionaries would have some sense of decency to not let Russia fall into the hands of gangster oligarchs who seek to enrich themselves at the expense of the people. Let us hope that the Central Asian republics would become the center of a socialist Holy Roman Empire, from which we could possibly retake our lost territories, and reform the Soviet Union.” Dmitry Yazov, during a speech in the Politburo, while the National Redemption Air Force (the air arm of the Russian Provisional Government)
--- MOSCOW FALLS! YAZOV PERSONALLY SURRENDERS TO ALEXANDER LEBED’S NATIONAL REDEMPTION ARMY, ABSAMAT MASALIYEV APPOINTED AS ACTING PREMIER OF USSR
The West Australian
February 14, 1994
 Regular troops of the National Redemption Army with the pre-Revolutionary Russian tricolor arrive in the Soviet capital after the defending Red Army soldiers commanded by Dmitry Yazov surrendered to the victorious troops of the NRA under the command of General Alexander Lebed.Moscow, (Breakaway) RUSSIAN SFSR – After a month of urban warfare inside the capital city of the Soviet Union, the National Redemption Army has announced the capture and liberation of Moscow from the Soviet government, as Dmitry Yazov himself went out and personally surrendered to Alexander Lebed’s soldiers of the National Redemption Army. Much of the Red Army soldiers who defended the Soviet capital, along with civilians who were conscripted into the People’s Guard, a Soviet version of the British Home Guard and the WWII German Volkssturm, had laid down their weapons and marched off into captivity, with the victorious National Redemption Army troops cheering in victory. The official end of the battle had occurred when the 106th Guards Airborne Division had entered the Kremlin grounds and after a half-hour battle with the KGB agents inside, plus the engagement of the famous 4th Guards Tank Division from the loyalist side against the created NRA 3rd Guards Combined Arms Division, the VDV troops hoisted the banner of the pre-revolutionary white-blue-red Russian tricolor, before performing a ceremonial flag replacement, replacing said tricolor with a new Russian flag, that of a bi-colored purple-gold flag, with the eight arrow symbol of the National Redemption Army.
“Although the war is pretty much over in the heartland of the USSR, the Soviet government is still functioning. At this moment, our main priority is to feed the civilians inside the capital, and to help with the reconstruction efforts,” comments Alexander Lebed after being asked about the resumption of essential services inside the capital. “Much of our medical supplies are already being delivered by helicopters and heavy-duty trucks, so any civilian that is in need of medical attention can come to our medical tents, just outside St. Basil’s Cathedral.”
Church services were held by the Russian Provisional Government-aligned clergy of the Russian Orthodox Church, celebrating the victory over the Soviet government, but the celebratory mood had quickly turned dark when the priest started to commemorate the deaths of millions of civilians across the Soviet Union, because of the civil war. There are also talks of building a new church and a new military cemetery to intern the dead rebel soldiers who were killed during battle, as well as the recently discovered mass grave of over 400 National Redemption Army soldiers that were executed by the KGB before the Battle of Moscow had begun. While Moscow’s occupational garrison forces were taking care of essential services, the Warsaw Pact Volunteer Legion had also held a special parade in front of Red Square, to commemorate the joint struggle against Soviet communism, with Mieczyslaw Debicki being singled out for praise by the Russian Provisional Government.
“I would like to extend my congratulatory note to President Lech Walesa of Poland, and the commander of the Warsaw Pact Volunteer Legion, Mieczyslaw Debicki, for their efforts in helping the Russian Provisional Government in retaking the Motherland from Soviet communism. Although we do not have a medal ready yet, we will honor General Debicki with the second highest award, that of being granted the Honorary Citizen of Moscow and Yekaterinburg. Without your efforts, we would not have defeated the tyranny of the Soviet Union,” comments Acting President of the Russian Provisional Government, Gennady Burbulis. “The time for healing has not yet to come, for there is one more wound that we must bleed out, before the healing can truly begin.”
Following the Soviet government’s temporary relocation from Moscow to the Kazakh city of Shymkent, the Politburo held an emergency meeting to discuss the selection of a new Soviet premier that would succeed Dmitry Yazov, who is now under National Redemption Army custody. In a quick election that was not televised, the Soviet Politburo had elected Kyrgyz member of the Communist Party of Kyrgyzstan, Absamat Masaliyev, as the new Premier. In his official acceptance speech, Masaliyev had stressed the importance of maintaining ethnic harmony within the reduced Soviet Union and would work hard and strive towards the day when they can retake the renegade republics that left the USSR. As of February 14, only the Kazakh, Kyrgyz, Uzbek, Turkmen, and Tajik SSRs remain with the union, theoretically becoming a new, Turkic-dominated, ‘Soviet Union’.
--- Excerpts from “A Nation in Mourning”
By Arturo Tolentino
Atlas Publishing, published 2002
Chapter Sixteen: Golden Lily
Ever since the sudden visit by the CIA agents to our country, we had been garnering some unwanted attention from some rather unsavory characters. The Yakuza has not yet appeared in the Philippines, and I know this because I only started meeting some of them in 1996, when they came into our country as a part of the humanitarian effort after the Chinese bombed the living hell out of the Philippines. Upon the recommendation of the Corsairs, an agent whose name we never found out, except that she went by the call sign ‘Mistress’, had been assigned as a security consultant to General Tadiar. The mysterious ‘Mistress’ gathered most of us in Tadiar’s office one time, and when I entered the office, I was stunned to see a bunch of old maps lying on Tadiar’s desk. While ‘Mistress’ was going over the maps with another agent, who looked Japanese but was stunned to learn that he was a third-generation Japanese American translator who worked for the CIA, Lieutenant Colonels Doromal and Aromin jotted down the notes as they were talking to a middle-aged man, who was carrying a backpack full of items that I was not familiar with.
“Good to see you out of office, Arturo,” Tadiar said to me lightly as he waved for me to sit down. The middle-aged man turned around to look at me and glared back a bit. “Do not mind him. He is a treasure hunter.”
“A treasure hunter? You do realize that in a couple of months, our economy will tank, thanks to the sanctions imposed on us by that new President who we thought was not going to be President,” I replied back sarcastically, but Tadiar paid no attention to my tone. “Anyways, who is this adventurer?”
The middle-aged man stood up and shook my hand, even if he did it hesitantly. “I remember you, Former Vice President. You were former President Marcos’s VP, right?”
“Yes, and I think you have already established that fact,” I spoke back in an annoyed tone.
“Anyways, the civil war that we recently had here prevented me from filing a lawsuit against the previous President for the theft of the copper statue of Buddha, as well as some other treasures that I found.”
“Treasures?” I asked again. I did not like where this discussion is going. “You do not mean the myth of Yamashita’s gold?”
“The very same.” The middle-aged man’s gaze did not change at all, despite his rising emotion. “My name is Rogelio Roxas, and back in the 1970s, I found a bunch of old treasures inside one of the caves that I discovered. In addition to the large Buddha statue, I also found old radios, rifles, bayonets, and the remains of a former Japanese officer.”
“Which explains the maps that ‘Mistress’ and I found a while back,” the Japanese American translator spoke up as he turned to me. “I do not have an official name, but my call sign is ‘Racoon’.”
“We are here because we were involved with the treasure a long time ago. Before the CIA was born, the former OSS had learned about the treasure and when we acquired some of its contents, we used them to fund activities around the world.” I understood well what ‘Mistress’ meant by using some of the treasure for ‘activities’. “Of course, now that General Tadiar must solve the economic issues at hand, we thought that we would lend our expertise in discovering more of the treasure in the Philippines. Of course, we cannot reveal to the world that a country that was recently hit by UN economic sanctions now has enough wealth to ride out the sanctions and at the same time, destroy the gold market. We need to meet up with representatives of the Japanese government and to find out how we can safely transfer all of the treasures we find without raising alarms in Beijing, Seoul, and Hanoi.”
I nodded in agreement, having understood the importance of keeping the discovery of the treasure a secret. After all, much of Asia is still owed war reparations from Japan for their wartime occupations of the countries affected, China being the most affected. I would not be surprised if Ye Fei told his superiors about the treasure but given that he mostly spent his time fighting for the Chinese communists, he would not know much about the treasures that General Yamashita had conveniently forgotten in the Philippines. Tadiar turned to Rogelio Roxas and looked at the papers he carried.
“These papers contain the information on your lawsuit against former President Marcos, correct?” Rogelio nodded. “You are of course, aware that he died a long time ago, right?”
“Yes, and that is exactly why I need your help in securing my share of the treasure.” Tadiar laughed lightly. “What is so funny?”
“While you are entitled to some of the contents of the treasure, do you not realize that many men in the entire country would gladly spend a lifetime in prison, just to kill you and get your shares of the loot?” Tadiar asked back. He handed Rogelio’s papers to Lt. Colonel Aromin, who simply kept it safe inside the folder. “You have two choices here: either you can drop the lawsuit, which you need to do anyways, as you cannot exactly sue a dead man, and help us with the hunt for the treasure, or you can continue to hunt for the treasure on your own and risk getting killed. This is the kind of information that can easily destroy the global economy if done incorrectly.”
“You mean, if done correctly,” Lieutenant Colonel Doromal corrected him, to the shock of the people inside the room. “We have an opportunity here to sabotage the global economy, and China’s economic reforms are still ongoing, so if we can use the treasures, we dig up to sabotage the global economy, China’s economic fortunes will also be affected as a result.”
“That may be a great idea, Lt. Col. Doromal, but what is to stop the Chinese from invading the Philippines and looting the country wholesale, just so it can be secured economically?” ‘Mistress’ asked back skeptically. “Messing around with the global economy might attract unwanted attention from the people in suits, especially those with a certain kind of control in the global finance sector?”
I nodded once again, although having listened to the discussions made between Tadiar’s junta and the CIA Corsairs present in the Philippines, I do not know if we are doing a right thing, digging up the entire nation for a treasure that all of Asia would gladly go to war for. Surprisingly enough, it was Tadiar himself who suggested something bold, and shocking.
“Since we need additional assistance, why not contact someone who used to serve in the Imperial Japanese Army during the war? Especially someone who fought in this very country?” Tadiar asked back.
Lt. Col. Aromin scoffed. “Who would that be?”
“You would know him well; he held out in Lubang Island until 1974, and it was our so-called beloved Macoy who granted him amnesty for killing the farmers because he assumed that the war was still going on.” We were stunned at his suggestion, but I had a nasty feeling as to who he is exactly talking about.
--- LUBANG ISLAND BECOMES EPICENTER OF NEW ANTI-TADIAR PROTESTS AS ELECTIONS DRAW CLOSER
Philippine Daily Inquirer
March 14, 2016Lubang Island, MINDORO PROVINCE – A series of new protests erupted in the small island of Lubang, as demonstrators made their opposition to incumbent junta leader Artemio Tadiar loudly known. However, the significance of the protesters who came out in opposition to Tadiar is well known, as their anti-Tadiar protests are tied in with the resurgence of anti-Japanese sentiment, dating back from WWII and the post-war years when former Imperial Japanese Army officer Hiroo Onoda had conducted a guerrilla war against US and Philippine troops from 1944 until his eventual surrender in 1974, thirty years after he and his unit first landed in the Philippines. Many villagers who lived on Lubang Island had vivid memories of their crops being burnt by Japanese stragglers and considering Tadiar’s closer relationship with Japan and the increasing number of Japanese immigrants coming to the Philippines, their anti-junta protests, and the connection to a small but influential anti-Japanese sentiment could not be missed.
“The end of the Tadiar era could not come soon enough, and I for one, do not wish to host any more Japanese settlers in our island,” comments local farmer Brian Pascual. “When Tadiar sold the Philippines for 30 Japanese silver, he unleashed the tidal wave of Japanese immigrants coming to our country. While I have no ill will towards other people who come to live in the Philippines, it is an issue for us when a national leader has an open invitation for a certain people who came from a country that occupied us during the war. The Japanese government has never apologized for its crimes against the Filipino people.”
Former Lieutenant Onoda’s visit to the Philippines in 1997 aroused a fierce anti-Japanese sentiment from within former survivors of the Bataan Death March, as well as ex-comfort women and comfort gays. One of the survivors of the comfort station nightmare, an old woman who goes by ‘Lola Rosa’, had written an open letter to Major General Tadiar himself, and was signed by other former comfort women, and surprisingly enough, comfort gays, or former Filipino drag queens who masqueraded as women, and were raped by Japanese soldiers, like Walter Dempster Jr., who goes by the name of Walterina Markova. With the last of the former comfort women and comfort gays dying in 2015, the memories of their suffering are fading a lot faster, as old anti-Japanese sentiment have been replaced by fresh anti-Chinese sentiment, stemming from the conflict in the West Philippine Sea back in 1995. At the same time, ethnic clashes between the leftover Filipino Chinese population in the Philippines that were spared by the Tadiar regime, and Japanese newcomers, have become more frequent, as it is suspected that the Tadiar regime is using the Yakuza to incite the race riots.
“It is becoming clear that Artemio Tadiar fears the incoming retribution from his former victims, who are now crying out for justice after the suffering they have endured. As my father said, Tadiar’s foolhardy behavior in 1995 and Nicanor Faeldon’s fanatic extremism has killed any chance of reconciliation between the Philippines and China,” says Sara Duterte, daughter of incumbent chairman of the National Democratic Front Rodrigo Duterte and one of the vice-presidential candidates seeking office as member of the NDF. “We also hold Saulito Aromin and Edgardo Doromal responsible for the human rights violations that have been committed by our nation’s soldiers when they were deployed overseas, and when they fought against the New People’s Army.”
--- Excerpts from “The Phoenix of the Steppe: Kazakhstan’s Miraculous Recovery”
By: Journeyman Pictures Australia
Released on May 28, 2018
“The world was stunned when it was announced that Kazakhstan, a war-torn post-Soviet country that became the temporary seat of what remained the Soviet Union, until its formal dissolution on January 7, 1995, was chosen to host the 2014 FIFA World Cup. It was shocking to hear, considering the disastrous Chinese military intervention in Central Asia as a result of the Uyghur separatists’ ambitions to re-create the East Turkestan Republic, the brief episode when Al-Qaeda used Kazakhstan as its base from which it launched a series of terrorist attacks on Russian soil, to the Russian military intervention that saw much of the rest of Kazakhstan and Kyrgyzstan occupied by Russian troops, and their eventual withdrawal from what remained of those nations. Kazakhstan today is a shell of its former Soviet self, with its northern and western territories still held by Russia, despite a peace agreement that saw both states exchange territories that held each other’s populations. Yet, out of the ashes of the Second Russian Civil War, Kazakhstan did not slouch off, as its people had eagerly gone to work, rebuilding the country in a way that would have impressed even Boris Yeltsin. With much of Kazakhstan’s top government elites advocating for closer relations with China, it is not surprising that Chinese oil and gas companies are making their presence in Kazakhstan known. A prime example of Chinese economic influence is their role in the construction of the Kulzhan hydrocarbon fields, which extracts natural gas. Yet, under the leadership of several Kazakh leaders like Zharmakhan Tuyakbay (head of Azat Alash, or Free Alash movement) and Aitkul Samak, Tuyakbay’s successor as President of Kazakhstan, much of the profits made from the sales of oil and gas had gone back into the Kazakh economy. Not only did China have a strategic interest in securing Kazakhstan’s oil and gas supplies, but it also had a geopolitical interest in containing a resurgent Western-aligned Russia. In addition, Korean companies like Hyundai, Samsung, and Dawonsys, have built their production plants in Kazakhstan, while Turkish companies like Çalik Enerji (the same company that was first in line to invest in the Philippine economy once UN sanctions were lifted) and Cengiz Holding have invested much in Kazakhstan’s construction sector.
Much of the hard work that Kazakhs had put into rebuilding their country was not limited to just their economy: Kazakhs also worked harder to promote their country on the international stage, and nothing beats an advertisement campaign for a goal of hosting the first international sporting tournament in post-Soviet Central Asia than a film about Kazakhstan itself. An independent movie, made by noted filmmakers Erkin Rakish and Timur Bekmambet, called “Bolat’s Home of Kazakhstan”, was mostly about the adventures of Bolat Nurman, and his decision to take a tour of the entire country. From the heavily guarded border between Russia and Kazakhstan, to the wild fields of the Kazakh steppe, and down into the Caspian Sea, the movie is inspired by the American 1998 film ‘Tourist Trap’, in that Bolat and his friends take a wild tour on an old Soviet Volga car. Bolat’s group even goes to Shymkent, where the temporary seat of the Soviet Union was located, before it became the capital of Kazakhstan, as Almaty was too close to the unstable Chinese western border, and Akmola was too close to the border with Russia. The film was widely popular in Kazakhstan, but the ambitions of the two moviemakers had garnered international fame, as they were often chosen to direct various Western and Asian films, over Western directors. In fact, ‘Bolat’s Home of Kazakhstan’, along with the other ambitious political project ‘Alash 2050’, which was basically a goal of reversing the environmental degradation of the Aral Sea into what it once was before Soviet communism destroyed its environment, through the construction of a network of desalination plants and a canal, called the Aral-Caspian Canal, was the key factor in why tourism became a popular industry in Kazakhstan. That, along with is position as the center of the Silk Road trade, and the newly refined sporting tradition that Kazakhs had developed after the collapse of the Soviet Union, made it a suitable candidate for the host of the 2014 FIFA World Cup. However, Kazakhstan would face serious competition from two other candidates within the AFC: Malaysia, and the Korean Federal Republic, which also had ambitions to host the World Cup to demonstrate the unity of the Korean peninsula after the Continuation War that saw the collapse of the former North Korean regime. By far the biggest challengers to Kazakhstan’s ambitions were CONCACAF member states Canada and Mexico, which also aspired to host their World Cup as well. The promotional bid that was directed by Bekmambet and Rakish, was nothing short of amazing. To improve on the bid for the coveted host of the World Cup, the Kazakh government went into overdrive, directing the modernization of villages, towns, and small cities. Finally, when the FIFA Committee had announced in October of 2010 that Kazakhstan had narrowly beaten Canada and Mexico for the right to host the World Cup, the entire nation erupted in celebration. Although Mexico would go on to host the 2022 World Cup, the 2014 World Cup was something that Kazakhs would treasure for a long time.”
--- KAZAKHSTAN TO PASS SURNAME LAW, DROPPING SLAVIC SUFFIXES IN KAZAKH SURNAMES
Washington Post
September 19, 2005
 Kazakh President Zharmakhan Tuyakbay explains the newly passed Kazakh Family Name Act, which basically prohibits the usage of the Slavic suffixes used in Russian surnames.Shymkent, REPUBLIC OF KAZAKHSTAN – Kazakhstan’s President Zharmakhan Tuyakbay has announced the passing of the Kazakh Family Name Act, a law that bans the usage of the Slavic suffixes in Kazakh surnames, and its replacement with Kazakh suffixes on the Scandinavian model. Starting on October 1, 2001, all Kazakhs will drop the Slavic suffixes of ‘ov’, and ‘ev’ for males, and ‘ova’ and ‘eva’ for females. The Kazakh Family Name Act, which comes at a time when a push for de-Russification is at an all time high, has garnered support from Kazakh nationalists furious with the continued Russian occupation of northern and Western Kazakhstan, despite the final peace agreement signed by the Russian and Kazakh governments after Russian troops pulled out of Kazakhstan in 2002 due to their war against Al-Qaeda. Although many Kazakhs are thankful to Russia for helping them deal with the Islamist terror group, they still harbor a grudge against the Russians for the Tsarist and Soviet periods, including the tragic Jeltoqsan incident where most Kazakhs had protested the replacement of former Communist Party of Kazakhstan General Secretary Dinmukhamed Konayev with Gennady Kolbin, as well as the issue of Semipalatinsk as the test site of the first Soviet atomic bomb.
“Our government is committed to the erasing of Russian colonial traces that have affected our country. When the last vestige of Russian colonialism is erased from Kazakhstan, only then can we truly express our national pride as a nation with a rich history,” says Tuyakbay in front of the Kazakh Mezhlis. “Though we are a Turkic-speaking nation, we will never forget the only positive influences that were brought from Tsarist and Soviet times. Other than that, Kazakhstan is committed to the integration into the Pan-Asian community.”
Although most Russians left in Kazakhstan had already left for Russia, other minorities living in Kazakhstan continue to reside inside the country, but the issue of the deported Koryo-saram remains a sore topic between Russia and Kazakhstan. Moreover, the exodus of the Koryo-saram population from Central Asia to Russia had resulted in a brain drain, where most of Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, and to a lesser extent, Uzbekistan, were deprived of their talented Koryo-saram population, and provided a brain gain for Russia, and to a lesser extent, the West, and Korea. However, minorities from neighboring countries like Uzbekistan and Kyrgyzstan have also been living inside Kazakhstain in peace, and it is also reported that Uzbek President Muhammad Salih and Kyrgyz President Myrzakan Subanov are also considering a similar measure to President Tuyakbay’s law.
--- Excerpts from the film “Bolat’s Home of Kazakhstan”
Director: Timur Bekmambet and Erkin Rakish
Producer: Erkin Rakish
Nur Media
Actors Playing Characters:
Niyazbek Shaysultan – Bolat Nurman
Mukhtar Umar – Haydar
Asylkhan Tolypuly – Bayram
Berik Aitzhan – Emir
Samal Yeslyam – Gulnaz
Sasha Baron Cohen – Yaakob the Lost Tourist
Feruza Jumaniyoz – Yulduz (aka: Uzbek exchange student)
(SAYRAM, KAZAKHSTAN. Scene moves to a highway where four guys in an old Soviet Volga car are inside, with BOLAT driving)
BAYRAM: How long until we reach the next gas station, Bolat? I want to buy some coffee.
BOLAT: (growls) Did you not have some coffee already, Bayram? We just bought some back in Turkistan, and you want to drink one more? How long until you ask me if you can piss on the side of the road? (looks at the highway meter)
HAYDAR: (looks to the side of the road) Hold on a second. (car approaches the outskirts of DOSTYK) Isn’t there a restaurant nearby in Dostyk?
EMIR: Probably, but I do not know if we have some money left.
BOLAT: (scoffs) We do have some money left. Did you guys forget my position as an accountant with that Korean oil company? (car approaches DOSTYK as BOLAT sees an approaching foreigner, revealed to be YAAKOB) Oh, joy.
EMIR: What is it, Bolat? (looks at YAAKOB and scoffs) Is that moron lost or something?
BOLAT: Let me talk to him. (opens the window of the car and honks) You lost, buddy? (In English)
YAAKOB: (stammers) I am lost, yes. I do not speak Kazakh, I am afraid.
BOLAT: Do not worry. I can help you. Where are you going, lost man?
YAAKOB: (hands the map to BOLAT) I wanted to go to this city. (points at the map where SHYMKENT is located) Chimkent, is it?
HAYDAR: (growls angrily) It is Shymkent, you (explicit) idiot! What are you doing here if you do not know where are you going?
BOLAT: (turns to HAYDAR) Shut up! (looks at YAAKOB) Forgive my friends here, but Haydar has a point. You pronounce it as Shymkent, with a sh, like shoe.
YAAKOB: (his eyes brighten) Ah, yes! Sorry about that. (EMIR scoffs) I am trying to get to Shymkent because I am an international student.
BAYRAM: A student who is lost? Unbelievable.
HAYDAR: Tell me about it. Who else gets lost in the middle of South Kazakhstan? Uzbeks?
YAAKOB: (laughs lightly) I rode the wrong bus, trying to get to Shymkent. I ended up in Turkistan, because the bus had engine trouble, and I do not know how to get to Shymkent.
BOLAT: Which part of Kazakhstan did you arrive in? You must have flown in from somewhere. (YAAKOB hands his old boarding pass as BOLAT’s eyes widen) Israel?
YAAKOB: I flew from Tel Aviv, but I landed in Kyzylorda.
BAYRAM: (laughs loudly) Well, we are going to Shymkent too.
BOLAT: (nods in agreement) Do you need a ride to Shymkent as well?
HAYDAR: (gasps in horror) Seriously? Are you thinking of taking this idiot with us?
BOLAT: It is either us, or the police catches him. It is his choice.
YAAKOB: I will come with you guys. (EMIR opens the door of the car as YAAKOB climbs in) Thank you.
BOLAT: We are not giving you a ride for free. You need to pay up.
YAAKOB: How much?
BAYRAM: (grins) You buy us all some coffee. OK?
BOLAT: Again, with the damn coffee. (starts the engines and drives)
(Scene switches to SHYMKENT, and then Shymkent Plaza, where GULNAZ and YULDUZ are sitting at the Kamshat Coffee shop)
YULDUZ: I cannot wait until my school semester begins. (turns to GULNAZ) Is Auezov that great of a university?
GULNAZ: (smiles) It is. Do you want a tour of the city, Yulduz? Shymkent is different from Tashkent.
YULDUZ: (frowns) Yes, please. I still cannot pronounce the name of this city in the local dialect. I always say it as Chimkent.
GULNAZ: (sighs) I forgot; you are pronouncing it in Uzbek instead of Kazakh. (feels her phone vibrate) Oh, I need to get this. (clicks the button on the phone) Hi, Bolat! What are you doing right now?
(Scene moves back to BOLAT and his friends plus YAAKOB on the car)
BOLAT: We are on our way to Shymkent. It turns out that we picked up a hitchhiker who was dumb enough to miss a replacement bus back in Turkistan.
(Scene moves back to GULNAZ)
GULNAZ: Really? Who was it?
(Scene moves back to BOLAT)
BOLAT: Some student from Israel. This Yaakob guy promised to pay for our gasoline bill, as well as for our meals when we get to Shymkent.
(Scene then splits between BOLAT and GULNAZ)
GULNAZ: Well, if you really want to get some food in Shymkent, you need to go to Kok Saray or Ak Dastarkhan. Your Israeli buddy will love some of our local dish there.
YULDUZ: Plus, some pilaf as well.
BOLAT: I am excited for the beshbarmak. (turns to HAYDAR and BAYRAM) How about some lagman and beshbarmak, my friends?
EMIR: (over the phone) Count me in! I will pay for my lagman and some Kumis as well!
GULNAZ: (sighs in annoyance) Bolat. (she grinds her teeth) Are you bringing those clowns with you? I can hear Emir over the phone. If this means Haydar and Bayram are with you, we will come with you to make sure they behave.
BOLAT: They sure will. Bayram and Haydar kept asking me about the stupid coffee earlier.
YULDUZ: (mouths at GULNAZ) Coffee?
GULNAZ: (nods in agreement) Well, I suppose you guys can get drunk on some shubat as well, but since you are driving, you are not drinking the kumis or the shubat.
BOLAT: Agreed. Well, gotta go. (hangs up the phone) So, who wants to check out Shymkent Plaza?
--- “The Golden Buddha statue that I recovered from the Marcos family was confiscated on orders of former Major General Tadiar himself. Unlike with the unlamented Ferdinand Marcos, Tadiar was decent enough to compensate me for my troubles, but no sooner did I receive the compensation did Tadiar hire me to locate the other treasures. I knew what happened to the statue: it was melted for gold bars, which was used by the Tadiar regime to pay for the services of Aum Shinrikyo, through the Yakuza. How else did the Tadiar regime and the Yakuza got into business together? Moreover, he also hired that Lieutenant who was carrying out the Pacific War long after the war was over, to translate the maps we recovered. Mr. Onoda was rather helpful, since he saw it as making amends for killing those farmers, thinking that they were still the enemy. I regret playing a role in Tadiar’s major political projects, from arming and training those Uyghur separatists carrying out an insurgency against the Chinese, to Aum Shinrikyo’s hijacking of that airplane that crashed into the Oriental Pearl Tower in Shanghai, and the bus bombings in Shenzhen. I only escaped the Philippines after learning that Aum Shinrikyo had planned a sarin gas attack in Xiamen, with Taiwanese gangsters acting as intermediaries. In addition, we also handed the treasures we found to the CIA, and they used its contents to overthrow Mexico’s government and replace its president with General Chaparro, and brought a second Chilean junta, under Alvaro Corbalan. Perhaps the most important thing about my role in the hunt for Yamashita’s Treasure was that some of the treasures that I helped recover had nearly caused a global economic crash because we almost destroyed the gold market.” Rogelio Roxas, during his testimony in the International Tribunal for the Republic of the Philippines, October 13, 2017.
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