“History was made there!” – Kyrgyz thoughts on the ANO Eurasia Forum in Moscow

The international social and business forum “Eurasia – Territory of Traditional Values” has finished its work in Moscow. I often attend international forums because of my work, but this particular one left me feeling light and calm. I will try to explain why.
When the delegation from Kyrgyzstan was about to leave, the organizers wrote in all chat rooms – bring warm clothes. Capricious April showed its temper – Moscow met us with 15 centimeters of snow and frost. But at the end of the forum we didn’t see any more snow in Moscow – spring nullified the last attempts of winter to regain power. I took this as a sign – at the forum sessions, almost all the participants noted that the old world system is going away and must be replaced by a multipolar system, which will be based not on the right of the strong, but on justice for all and the ability of each country to have an opinion and be heard.
I realized that something grandiose was going to happen when we were brought to the venue of the gala event – the National Center “Russia”. At the main entrance we saw a line of people – about a thousand people were passing through the control to get to the forum. There were more than 600 delegates from the post-Soviet countries alone – from Moldova, Armenia, Belarus, Georgia, Kyrgyzstan, Kazakhstan, Tajikistan, Uzbekistan, Azerbaijan, Abkhazia, Serbia and other countries. There were statesmen, ministers, business leaders, representatives of education, culture and public organizations. There were also political scientists, historians, journalists, bloggers and even doctors. It is noteworthy that the forum was attended by about 100 journalists from leading foreign publications. The ANO Eurasia Forum brought together very different people, but they were united by one aspiration – to preserve traditional values and not to let the world be destroyed.
At first, I perceived the forum as an ordinary event where people from the podium would speak high-minded words and make cute faces for the camera. But gradually, getting into the essence of what was happening, I began to realize that history was being made here. Not the one they write about in textbooks, but a real, living, full of emotions – the history of each of us.
At the session “Historical Truth. Facts defeat fictions” experts and participants discussed the burning issues of substitution of concepts and attempts to rewrite history. People told us what sophisticated and even blasphemous methods are used by the West in the information space to reformat brains and hammer in the meaning they want. Interestingly enough, whether it was an expert from Armenia or a history teacher from Kyrgyzstan, they all spoke about the same thing: our countries are being processed according to the same Western methods, which are adjusted according to local realities. That’s why media expert Tigran Kocharyan told me that in Armenia, as well as in other CIS countries, it is necessary to create structures that will debunk the myths planted by the West.
Unfortunately, today fact-checking is carried out only by pro-Western NGOs and companies affiliated with them, but there are many questions to their activity – they do not reveal lies, but disguise them as “truth” invented by them. Ordinary people have to consume “dirty content”, which is poured into our information space by the tons, and it is difficult for people to separate the grain from the chaff.
The forum paid special attention to the problems in education. After the collapse of the Soviet Union, we were flooded with Western missionaries from education, who said that as soon as we adopt their experience, we will live like them. But in reality, none of them wants our children to be highly educated.