"Assessing the Complicated Legacy of Mustafa Shokay"
Wilder Alejandro Sanchez
International Policy Digest
October 11, 2021
Originally published: https://intpolicydigest.org/assessing-the-complicated-legacy-of-mustafa-shokay/
It is impossible to overstate the power of propaganda throughout the Second World War and the Cold War. Along with creating national narratives and heroes, propaganda machines churned out demons by the thousands. One such individual whose legacy has been tarnished is Kazakhstani activist and scholar Mustafa Shokay.
Captured by the Germans when they entered France, Shokay’s time in Nazi captivity has been a subject of both fact-based speculation and wild conspiracy theories. During the Soviet era, he was branded an accomplice of Nazi Germany; however, the dissolution of the Soviet Union allowed new studies of his life, showing a complex and multifaceted individual devoted to an independent homeland for his fellow Turkic people.
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