In his classic novel, "A Day Longer than an Age," the Kyrgyz writer Chingiz Aitmatov offered the powerful image of "mankurts," people deprived of their identities and thus transformed into more pliant and subservient slaves of others. And this image was applied by many to the peoples of Central Asia in the late Soviet period.
The Interpreter: Russians said becoming ‘mankurts’ in their own land
Bashlachev says that Russians are being deprived of their memories via mass media propaganda.
