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> Yea. What else could it be?
Sometimes the term is broadened to include Turks outside Turkey. Just making sure.
> No, they didnt. I was criticizing the mentality here. We couldmt care less if you marry a non-Turk.
I must have missed your sarcasm. I thought you were truly incredulous.
> Kazan was an important please for Turks and then Russians came....
What do you mean "nationalist imaginary"?
What I mean can best be understood by your preceding sentence: nationalism constructs identities and narratives for people and assigns significance to events, locations, and even myths. So, according to you, Kazan was significant for Turks and then the Russians came. If we were talking about Hellenic nationalism, for example, then one would say "Constantinople was an importance place for Greeks and then Turks came…"
> Plus Soviets actively repressed religion. They wanted to make everyone a Russ so they would support intermarriages instead.
That's why I said it was obvious that religion would only be seen as an irrelevant obstacle in the event of a marriage between a Soviet "Christian" and "Muslim." Also, a Soviet desire to wholly Russify its population is, in my opinion, nothing more than Cold War propaganda (and I think it being propaganda has become the accepted view amongst scholars). The creation of a new Soviet (read: not Russian) person without ethnicity was scrapped or at least made a long-term goal because ethnicity and culture proved to be quite resilient and durable. Ali İğmen's Speaking Soviet with an Accent is a case study of Soviet culture clubs in the Kyrgyzstan SSR: the aim was to promote Kyrgyz culture and a "merging of socialism and national community," not Russification (84).
> Also intermarriages are common here in between Turks and Armenians.
I was saying that the religious barrier would have been more of an issue there than in the former Soviet Union, not that intermarriages do not occur–I am sure there are many examples.