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The Soviet Border Wars That Divided Central Asia
Before the fall of the USSR, the borders of Uzbekistan were drawn not by ancient tradition but by Moscow’s political calculus. In this episode, we explore the 1924 National Delimitation, a massive administrative reshuffle that carved modern Uzbekistan from the emirates of Bukhara and Khiva, while assigning key territories like Samarkand and Tashkent to the new republic. We examine how Stalin’s advisors used ethnic identity as a tool for control, dividing Tajik speakers across multiple republics to prevent unified opposition. The conversation covers the immediate human cost, including the…
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