Propaganda Analysis: Comrade Muslims

Some commentary on an interesting early Soviet poster geared towards Muslims.
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[@lavendersnow6447]

Thank you! Always love your content

[@WillyRahmannanoff]

I so much appreciate this work that you are doing. Exploitation of the poor must be addressed and condemned. Of the secular governments, the Soviets, despite their shortcomings, are the only ones who attempted to create a different more equitable world.

[@Firebringer121]

So I'm curious about your thoughts on the separation between Religious institutions and the State, for example, if a political candidate is pushing hard on religious views, not necessarily calling for religious laws per say, but using a lot of religious language to justify laws. As an example for the example, In the US anti abortion candidates use religious language to justify the outlawing of abortion.

[@jcrass2361]

Great points here, cool history as well.

[@brandonmiles8174]

@Lady Izdihar I didn't know you had a propaganda series. I guess this is a little bit different, but there is a series on KZbin called Cold War: (x topic) it should come up if you just search cold war. I thought of you immediately when I saw some of the different videos, particularly one on religion and I think there might be one specifically on Islam, I know there is one on Judaism. I bet you could pick apart the lies in the videos pretty well, and would certainly make good content for some videos.

[@jovicatrpcevski209]

Big surprise : the parts of the former USSR that were most illiterate were where Muslims were in the majority - just like how illiteracy was rampant in the former Ottoman Empire, the Muslims/Turks having only a slight edge over the various Christians over whom they ruled. 'In the land of the blind, the one-eyed man is king' - an Afghan proverb, apparently.

[@matildadrake3592]

🏃 Promo'SM!!!

[@usmanuddin1366]

'Illiteracy' is a decpetive idea in history. Muslim civilisation is always written by centralised nations in this way. When in reality, knowledge of islam is not historically held in books and many governments didnt consider knowlege of arabic script as literacy. Knowledge of Islam is passed down through sermons, lectures and from within communities. scholars are an addition which add a greater understanding of Sharia and specific Islamic practices. Soviets attempted to secularise the muslim parts of their empire by first arresting all the scholars. They would russify the native peoples names and introduce russian as their main language. They would dislocate any resitant peoples. They would slowly destroy Islam through the generations. Alhamdullillah, there is however a revival in the former soviet muslim world with orthodox Islam making a rise in places like kazakhstan. The country of somalia was deemed totally illiterate until their secular leaders forced everyone to adopt the latin script over the arabic.

[@smsmsm9032]

Kazakhstan would have been toiled if soviets didn't build it

[@Moses_VII]

look here, an Orientalist Eurosupremacist. ​@@smsmsm9032

[@Moses_VII]

Nice comment. I was confused, why do Azerbaijani people have Russian suffixes in their names, and not Turkish ones.

[@krakendragonslayer1909]

I didn't know that muslims can be illiterate. Aren't they obliged to know their scripture, thus making them literate since the young age?

[@SoryRN]

I mean their was certain discrimination of Muslims in the Russian empire and probably a lack of schools and mosques

[@robertroot7237]

Lol you don't need to understand what you recite

[@krakendragonslayer1909]

@@SoryRN lack of schools? in Soviets? naah, impossible, but in Soviet Union they weren't teaching religion at school, religion came back to schools after 1991

[@Abshir1it1is]

I mean, I was taught to read and memorise the Qur'an since I was a child. In Arabic. Despite me not understanding a lick of it. I've since lost the ability to read Arabic (from lack of use). Granted, this is entirely anecdotal, but I just wanted to make clear the difference between taught to recite scripture and _knowing_ scripture.

[@greatdslayarr]

@@SoryRN The North-East Caucasus for a time was under the control of a theocracy, lead by the Imams of the North Caucasian Imamate, most notably Imam Shamil. This state came into existence due to the increasing encroachment of the Russian Empire onto Caucasian lands, and was founded upon strict adherence to Sharia, as well as the Sufi tariqah of Naqshbandiyya. During this time (according to one source I read which I cannot find now, either the Caucasian War by Amiran Urushadze or Sabres of Paradise by Lesley Blanch), the North Caucasians were praised by the wider Muslim world for the excellent understanding and pronunciation of Arabic, a language that often served as a lingua franca amongst the many diverse peoples of Dagestan and Chechnya. This would suggest a fairly high level of literacy, at least compared to other non-Western countries in the 19th Century. Almost every single aul (mountain village) in Dagestan (which I'm most familiar with due to my ancestry) would have its own mosque, no matter how small, and this continued into the Soviet era, and education was done at a small-scale, community level. The Arabic alphabet is ingrained directly into the religion of Islam, with every single Surah beginning with a series of Arabic letters which are pronounced out loud in their entirety, which I would think also aided the comprehension of the written language. I'm kinda just rambling here but maybe it's of some worth

[@smsmsm9032]

Lol 😂😂😂😂 ussr banned madras in 1930s and yets this bs muslim propaganda showing communist propaganda

[@Moses_VII]

Communists hate Islam so much that Communist MKO worked with the USA and Saddam Hussein to defeat the Islamists, and they failed.