Father of France

Chapter 59 The Composure of the French Plain White Flag
With great willpower, Koman removed the large fruit hanging from the sclerosis in his eye, but it was hard. It's not good to be too young, so he could only distract himself with various brain exercises.

He was still holding the Gulag regulations in his hand, which he had obtained in Sverdlovsk, the German prisoner-of-war factory in Yekaterinburg. These things were not as important as he had imagined; anyone could make up regulations.
Koman knew that seeing was believing, so he spent a few days in Sverdlovsk to observe the operation of the prisoner-of-war factory up close.

The management regulations are static, but more practical things like organizational structure and job allocation have been recorded by Koeman in his diary.

The few days of delay also included Pavlov communicating with his superiors to resolve Koman's trip to Central Asia. Since Sverdlovsk had already been inspected, it wouldn't be unreasonable to suggest inspecting Central Asia as well.

Anyway, that's how the bottom line was broken. It's not like Koeman was there to inspect work in Siberia or Arctic POW camps.

It was eventually approved by General Riasnoy, the highest-ranking official in the Gulag. This time, Koeman's reason was to study the Soviet view of national unity. Koeman always managed to find a suitable reason to justify his purpose, even at the cost of exposing some so-called French intelligence.

For example, 400,000 soldiers who fought in Africa have been granted the right to settle in mainland France, which will certainly cause dissatisfaction among the French people.

Although France has a history of practicing various theories, theory is one thing, and putting it into practice is another.

This was mainly due to de Gaulle's promise, but the French people could not help but have complaints.

Koeman didn't care about the opinions of the French people. In his view, the French nation's value in uniting the people was far less than that of the Algerians. The fact that 400,000 French troops had settled on the mainland was only significant enough to provide Koeman with an excuse to explore Central Asia.

The successful de-religiousization of Central Asia was a landmark event with positive significance for the Soviet Union, a view shared by the vast majority of Soviet cadres, including Pavlov.

Therefore, Pavlov was pleased when Koman became interested in his own definition of de-religion, that is, the de-religion of eradicating pacifism, and felt that Koman also had the potential to be an atheist.

"Of course, we must start with education." Pavlov enthusiastically introduced the Soviet Union's efforts in de-religionization: "Religious content was removed and replaced with 'scientific atheism' education, emphasizing that religion is 'the people's opium.' Religious texts were burned, and channels of dissemination were cut off. Religious donations were nationalized, cutting off the economic resources of mosques. At the same time, the traditional rural social structure that facilitated the spread of religion was destroyed, weakening the influence of religion on farmers."

Pavlov had heard all of these things from his comrades in the Ministry of Internal Affairs, even though he hadn't implemented them himself. As for the macro policies of the higher authorities, the Soviet government abolished traditional customs such as polygamy, child marriage, and women's veils, and banned the operation of religious courts, replacing them with the Soviet legal system.

"They didn't raise pigs in the mosque?" Koman asked skeptically. This wasn't the Soviet Union he knew. The other party was keeping such a landmark event a secret.

“This… is just an interlude in the implementation process.” Pavlov was a little embarrassed. Actually, he didn’t know, nor had he paid attention to the specifics of this matter. He could only explain to Koman based on the policies and descriptions from his comrades. He had never heard of raising pigs in mosques. He composed himself and said, “But you can’t deny that the method is useful.”

“That’s true.” Koeman nodded solemnly, knowing it would definitely be used in Algeria. “I think many countries will learn from the experience of the Soviet Union.”

Koman, a modernist Christian, didn't reject the methods of atheistic countries, but some adaptation was definitely necessary, and it had to be suited to the specific circumstances of the North African colony; blind imitation was not advisable. On his first day in Tashkent, Koman was simply trying to recover from the fatigue of the long train journey. After crossing the Ural Mountains, the temperature was indeed quite different from that of the western European part of the Soviet Union. No wonder that since the Tsarist era, this group of Russians had been constantly launching attacks from all directions in search of warm sea outlets.

That evening, Koman summarized the Soviet unity historical perspective. The Soviet version of the unity historical perspective was a Russification of history based on the Russian people. Stalin determined that the Russians were the most superior of the many nationalities in the Soviet Union, and that backward nationalities should learn from the advantages of the Russian people in order to eventually complete the establishment of the Soviet nation.

Every country has a history of unity, but only truly homogeneous nation-states don't care. The American history of unity must be about bridging the gap between whites and blacks. Koeman saw the results; he did a terrible job. Trump's rise to power itself is a testament to Americans' disapproval of this history of unity.

It is certain that France's distribution of educational materials to Black people in Africa, which we all consider Gaulish, is also part of a united historical perspective.

Turkey could go even further and directly deny the existence of the Kurds, referring to them as the Mountain Turks, which would be an even more dangerous attempt.

However, during Erdogan's reign as Great Khan, the concept of the Mountain Turks had completely failed.

To be honest, it won't succeed from the start. It's not just a matter of Turkey's population ratio. The more crucial point is that the Kurds are a cross-border ethnic group, influenced by Kurds in Syria and Iraq. It's impossible for the Kurds in Turkey to remain unaffected. This is something that the Turks can't simply shut themselves off and talk to the mountain Turks about.

Kurds in Turkey make up more than one-fifth of the country's population, nearly a quarter. But if you include Kurds in other countries, they make up more than a third of the Turkish population. This is not something that an ordinary country can forcibly assimilate.

"There are still too many Algerians. Killing off a group of them is not a bad thing."

Koeman had to consider the possibility of taking action against the Algerians, and then, based on the findings of his investigation in the Soviet Union, take a multi-pronged approach to keep Algeria in France. If Algeria remained independent, it would be a springboard for French control of Africa; if it became independent, it would be a wall blocking French control of Africa.

After a day of rest, Koman went with Soviet NKVD officers to see German prisoners of war clearing land. If they won, they would be noble Germans, the most superior race in the world; if they lost, they would be lowly people competing with African Americans for a niche in the cotton fields.

Just as he was thinking this, one of the prisoners of war who was clearing land seemed to be not efficient enough and was directly whipped by the old Central Asian man who was guarding him. Koman responded with sincere ridicule, "I wonder who is more suitable for growing cotton, the Germans or the black slaves of America."

"Lieutenant Koman, are you still racist?" asked Sokolova, a female officer from the Ministry of Internal Affairs, tilting her head as she asked, her voice like melodious music flowing in one's ear.

"No, no, no, my dog ​​is as black as it gets," Coman replied with a smile and the composure of the French Plain White Banner.

(End of this chapter)