One day a lawyer told me:
You don’t know who to be afraid of. The most terrifying people are the historians of the Republic of Mordovia! Literally in a few years they found the Mordov roots not only in the entire Russian "elite": stars of the show business, politicians and so on; not only in all historical Russian personalities, from Peter the First to Fyodor Ushakov, but even already in Hollywood stars of world size!!! Soon the Bible will have to be rewritten, because they will say that not Jesus, not the Lord, but the Holy Spirit was surely a Morduin, because the names were not yet invented by the Mordue and were called holy spirits. The Crusades were not there. Not there at first. Then Hitler and Napoleon sought to Solemn Mordovia, but they were not allowed to go further to Moscow. And the Tatar Mongols arrived, but they did not go further to Mordovia and established their capital there.
When I was about 20 years old, the Republic celebrated the 500th anniversary of the establishment of Mordovia. This year, when I am about 50, they celebrate the 1000th anniversary of reunification with the Russian state. 500 years have passed!!! 10,000 years ago there was a sea in Mordovia. In a couple of years, they will celebrate the 10,000th anniversary of the day when the Mordians (wrongly called the Marsians, over the course of a long time the name was distorted) landed in the center of the planet (it can easily be found on the map in the radius of 100 km from Saransk) and settled all over the planet, became the ancestors of modern Homo sapiens.
Fear the historians!! to