Uzbek Leaders Stalin Purged in 1938 Deserved to Be Because of Their Links to Prometheanism, Mendkovich Says

Paul Goble
    Staunton, Nov. 1 – A Russian nationalist commentator says that the Uzbek leaders Stalin purged in 1938 deserved to be because of their links to the Promethee movement, a declaration that both highlights Moscow’s increasingly negative reaction to non-Russian charges against the Soviet dictator and the reach of the Promethee movement into Central Asia.
    In a commentary for the Strategic Culture Foundation portal, Nikita Mendkovich lashes out at Uzbek commentaries declaring the leading victims of Stalin’s purges in that republic to have been “the flower of the nation” and says they deserved to be imprisoned and killed   fondsk.ru/news/2024/11/02/1938-god-repressii-v-uzbekistane-ili-novaya-revolyuciya.html).   
    On the one hand, he insists, the Uzbek party leaders whom Stalin purged were corrupt and needed to be weeded out to block the restoration of a class society in that Central Asian country. And on the other, they were closely linked to the Promethee movement that he says the West established in order to promote the dismemberment of the Soviet Union.
    If Mendkovich’s first argument is an old one – it was first advanced by Soviet propagandists at the time of the Great Terror – his second represents an increasingly important theme in more recent commentaries about those events, one that seeks to link the victims of Stalin’s crimes to Western intelligence services.
    That has long been a staple of Russian commentaries about nationalists in Ukraine and the western republics of the former Soviet Union, but its extension to Central Asia, while not unprecedented, is an increasing focus of the attention of Russian nationalists in Moscow alarmed by growing support for the memory of Stalin’s victims there.
    For background on the Polish Promethean movement, see windowoneurasia2.blogspot.com/2023/04/prometheanism-showed-that-joint.html and the sources cited there; and for the increasingly negative Russian reaction to that movement and its followers in the USSR, see windowoneurasia2.blogspot.com/2021/12/revival-of-prometheanism-outrages.html.