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The Soviet Border Wars That Divided Central Asia
In 1924, the Bolsheviks redrew the map of Central Asia, carving out the Uzbek and Turkmen SSRs from the crumbling Bukhara and Khiva Khanates. But this administrative division was not merely bureaucratic; it was a calculated strategy to fracture ancient nomadic identities and prevent a unified Islamic resistance against Moscow. We explore how the creation of artificial borders split ethnic groups like the Turkmens and Kazakhs between republics, igniting decades of tension. The episode focuses on the role of the OGPU in enforcing these new frontiers, the violent suppression of the Basmachi…
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