The second half of the 1970s was a period that saw the rise of the new generation of the elites, those who were born in the 1930s and 40s.
Having grown up in the period of walking towards independence, these future political figures followed the adventures of the war of Indochina and Algeria from their young ages. Fascinated by the Algerian and Indochinese audacity, abhoring the capitalist system and especially formed by the large communizing brothers, they make a 180 degree turn, embracing the ideology of the Eastern Bloc. The fall of the First Malagasy Republic was for them the start of an episode for the Grande-Ile. Like African countries thirsty for freedom, wanting to directly cut the relationship with France, Malagasy intellectuals reach out to the USSR, this anti-imperialist power. It was the appropriate solution to relaunch the economy since the Soviets were renowned for their pragmatism. So, from the 1980s, young Malagasy people, young coastal in particular were sent to Eastern Europe to continue their studies. If some have set sail for Moscow, others disembark in Romania, Ukraine and Yugoslavia. They followed different sectors such as medicine, mechanics, administration, agriculture … After a few years of training, it is with the head high that they return to the fold to transmit their expertise. The management positions are open to them. Consequently, they play on their pedestal. On the other hand, these great men from the Second Republic, having long stayed in snowy territories, have trouble adapting to the tropical season. In other words, personal confusion and inadequacy by the experience of a foreign culture and different from their own culture are seen, are felt in their decision -making. Apparently, the culture of Eastern Europe seems to be completely incomparable to that of Madagascar. So it took them more than a decade to understand reality in the field … In order to carry out politics, a cultural juxtaposition was undertaken. THE Firaisan-Kina Malagasyliterally Malagasy cohesion, was necessarily linked to socialist ideology.
The scheme is even more complicated in the Francophile regions such as the northern part of Madagascar. Long occupied by France, this region, where cosmopolitanism flowers, is imbued with French culture. Malagasy of strain, originally from a city where France had allegiance, a pure product of the Soviet system, the elite brings together manners, knowledge and ideas. This should be an asset! But, most of the time, and what is quite understandable, it cannot reach everything.
ISS HERIDINY
