watch putins interview
My dumb brain needs education. Can someone explain to me how Golden Horde has historical connections with Russia and Kazakhstan?
There's this pseudohistorical stereotype that poccuR authoritarianism comes from the rule of Mongol conquerors presented as uncivilized nomadic savages through the lens of 19th century romanticism, while in reality they left their own appointed russkies who only had to pay tribute, so Mongols don't really have anything to do with russian (muscovite to be exact) tyranny.
The idea comes from Russian philosophers who believed that tsarist tyranny is the direct result of Mongolian rule and that it can be overcoomed by copying Western experience, which was done in the end but only in the typical Russian half-assed manner which in the end only gave birth to an ugly chimera rather than any sort of "European" Russia, however the mene persists, parroted by illiterate naive infantiles who don't even know that Mongols themselves never had all that much to do with Russia to begin with, as it was mostly a Turkic zone of interests, and Turkic states were as democratic as Novgorod republic complete with proto-partliaments and so on.
tldr meaningless scapegoat meme
1) Russia as we know it today was formed by Princes of Moscow. Moscow was originally subordinate to Vladimir-Suzdal which was the strongest in the region of Zalesye (today's Russia's core), but rose to prominence when there was a succession crisis in Vladimir-Suzdal ~1300. The Golden Horde, which collected tribute from the Russian princes, decided to issue a jarlig to them, a low-power actor, rather than the stronger Tver. Long story short, Moscow used this favouritism well and consolidated power, and as the Golden Horde's power faded by the end of 1400s used the position to not just annex the other Princes in Zalesye but also Novgorod the Great to the north. From there on the Russians fought against other Golden Horde successors (e.g. Kazan) and spread eastwards, at first in search and control of trade routes from Siberia, later as an imperial enterprise.
2) Kazakhstan (or rather, Kazakh Khanate/Ulus) formed after fragmentation of the Golden Horde. Originally the Kazakhs were part of the Uzbek Khanate under Abulkhair, but Janibek and Kerei, unhappy with his rule, collected a horde 200,000 men and migrated east, to the border with the Chagatai. Then there was a struggle for independence from the Uzbek in second half of 15th century which was, evidently, successful.
