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700 OF COUNTRY LOVERS, 700 OF PIONEERS MEANS 700 REPATRIATES
16 .08.2009

Schamsi Hatkwa

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The Adigeh Republic allocated 3,700,000 rubles in its budget to advance relationships with its nationals living in the Diaspora. According to a statement made by the president of the National Committee and Relationships with Nationals in the Diaspora - Vanishaslav Jashamok, the work program for the period 2007-2011 will be conducted in three directions: cultural relationships, integrating mobility and services, and helping all those wishing to return to their mother land from the Diaspora to acquire citizenship. Jamshok also stated that the number of repatriates residing in the Adigeh Republic alone reached 700 (19 children were born to repatriates up until August of the year 2009)

When I read the news, I stopped to think, what are we supposed and not suppose to do? What is right and what is wrong to do? For long years we were fiercely arguing and debating and seems like we overlooked this accomplishment or we did not realize its impact and outcomes. Our debate and argument battles filled the battle field with dust preventing us from clearly seeing and realizing this accomplishment.

For God sake, does any one of us have an answer to those questions?
• Which of our repatriation proposals or policies had an accomplishment of 700 repatriates?
• Which of our repatriation proposals or policies is supported by 700 of those who believe in it and fight for it?

In a very short period of time and without prior proposition or repatriation policies, a 700 hundred dauntless, self sacrificing, committed, and pioneer heroes whose principles and the way they are holding to it sets an example for all of us to follow.

If we add to this number the repatriates in Kabarda, Karachai-Cherkesk, and Abkhazia, we realize that we have thousands of those dauntless, self sacrificing, and committed pioneer heroes and whose principles and the way they are holding to it sets an example for all of us to follow.

Despite of the unmature and unorganized phase of repatriation idea, and looking on the numbers of today’s repatriates, indicates that the repatriation idea and policies will succeed with no doubts.

Believe me when I say, it is a tremendous and very hard accomplishment, and almost impossible within the time period it was accomplished. It is known that the most hard and long phase of any ideological and political accomplishment is for individual to initially accept the idea. Every innovative idea bares uncertainty, risk, and lack of faith in its success, and even doubts of its compatibility to common circumstances and status quo. This is true not only for only ordinary people, but even for the most trained personnel. In every time they raise the sails to sail across the sea, salesmen always have a fear of the unknown.

In addition to those questions that storms human’s mind and makes him hesitant, tens and even hundreds of additional questions comes across his mind. Who will be my fellows in this journey? On what and on whom should I rely? And what are the hardships of accommodation and the degree of sacrifices and success?

If you have no one to set an example for you, you should rely on yourself and your natural judgment to solve your problems across the unknown journey. Your faith and persistence should be very strong in addition to patient, endurance, and determination.

Every beginning is hard, and the hardest of all is the beginning of a political struggle. Those that propose and claim that the State is weak have yet to prove it. But if you are one of those who propose to bypass our fears, you should do it by yourself following the footsteps of those who already did that, and to become yourself a person to be followed. But if you are one of those who shout: “death rather than repatriation”, indeed you might not return to your home land, but definitely sooner or latter you will die.

With such a step alone, the struggle does not end, and the idea and principle of repatriation is not quite solid proven. Repatriates should keep speaking about this principle hundred and thousands of times until it becomes scripted in people's mind and stored deep down in it. In order to overcome fear and hesitance, repatriates should implement what they are saying. But this is not enough, they have to organize and develop their movement because every one is monitoring and glancing at them. If they accomplish that, with no doubt, they would win the ideological struggle, and what follows is much easier.

Read the head lines again, and you will realize that the repatriation has started. There are 700 hundred of us are actually living in the mother land in the Adegeh Republic alone despite of all economic hardship surrounding the world and the region. Despite the lack of accommodation or assistance to this event, or even for someone to take their hand and help them, despite all that and more, a 700 hundred crossed this journey “The Journey of Glory”. Despite all what’s been said and repeated, they hold on to what they have started, and have grown strong roots proving that the repatriation is a reality as flesh covering bones. From now on, no one can distort this reality by any giving example. The journey has started, and will continue, and never will it stop, and it will grow stronger in the near future.

We all owe those 700 pioneers. They sacrificed their way of living and those they love in a stroke of a pen and without any hesitance. The body of those 700 is the solid bricks that will construct the bridge across the two banks of the valley that separated us from the mother land for 150 years. This bridge will be the connection between the past and the present of our Circassian nation, and will be our path for a prosperous future.

Those 700 hundreds are our founding fathers, and the example we should follow. They are our heroes, the heroes of the Circassian nation. I’m not sure if those seven hundred realize that they exceeded our expectations and even accomplished more than what we had in mind. They chose to be the messengers of our Circassian nation in its dire circumstances and bridge the most important gap by just only choosing to return to the mother land. And the most important of it, that the possibility of organizing the repatriation is so close and there is no doubt of it success. The rock started to shudder and no way to stop it from rolling.

Now and after a long period of time, we will start to see certain steps and a destiny we cannot hide from. Our people love to interact with the mother land, and this will be available to them through the bridge of the 700 hundred.

There is no place for hesitant any more or even questioning possibilities. Let us all reunite the two banks … hold on to our hand … and let it be said … those of us living in the Diaspora are returning, and those of us living in the mother land are welcoming them. And if you cannot hear our marching foots, let your shouts rise like a roar. There is no waist efforts or lost voices in this direction. Let us celebrate and glorify the repatriate day … let us held celebrations and talk plentiful about it … let us reunite all country lover … let us be one voice, one heart, Wey Marja.

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