Moreover, many Kazakhs give Mr Nazarbaev credit for keeping the peace in their vast country, which is the size of Western Europe and contains over 100 ethnicgroups.
If you sat down and tried to list all of the ethnicgroups they repressed, you would cover virtually every group in Europe except the English, the French, the Dutch, the Italians, and the Spanish.
The non-violence of the anti-Soviet movement in Eastern Europe does not reflect a deep, unchanging, or eternal truth about any of the ethnicgroups involved.