In Tatarstan, Vakhit Imamov's book "The Hidden History of the Tatars" may be recognized as extremist. When describing the uprisings of the Volga region peoples in the tsarist times, the author used the words "Russian yoke", "colonizers" and "punishers". The process on this work began yesterday in the Supreme Court of the Republic: it is closed from listeners and the media "in connection with the need to preserve the secrets protected by law. Mr. Imamov himself calls the trial in court "absurd", saying that he used only historical terms in his book. The writers' community in Tatarstan fears that this is how federals try to "ban the history of non-Russian peoples".
There is a false assumption that "the Tatar people have accepted the fact of enslavement by the Russians in 1552 and did not try to fight for their independence, for the revival of their state. And the fair, sacred struggle that we are waging today for the sake of building an independent Republic of Tatarstan free of Moscow dictatorship and robbery, Russian "politicians" and singing to them mancurts are trying to present as a fictitious and unjustified action, an unconfirmed desire or a movement generated by Gorbachev's "perestroika".In fact, both Tatars and Chuvashes, Bashkirs, Cheremis, Votyaks and other peoples who inhabited the Kazan Khanate have never accepted their slavery. Already in 1552, they, united, began a just liberation struggle against the Russian oppression, for the re-creation of the Kazan Khanate. The liberation uprisings were repeated every 10-15 years. This holy war was led in different years by Mamysh-Berdy, Ali-Akram, Sary-Bagatur, Janseit, Dzhangali Shugurov, Seit Yagafarov, Tulekey-batyr, his son Kusyum Tulekeev, Aldar Issyangildin (Isyakaev), Kilmyak Nurushev, son of Kusyum Akai, son of Akay Abdullah, Karasakal, Batyrsha (Abdulla Galiyev), Murat mullah and dozens of other glorious heroes. To save their nation from the Russian yoke, they all laid their heads either on the battlefield or on the gallows.