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The Soviet Erasure of Central Asian History
This episode explores how the Soviet Union systematically rewrote the history of Uzbekistan and its neighbors, turning vibrant Silk Road empires into mere preludes to communism. We examine the purges of Jadid intellectuals like Abdurauf Fitrat and Mahmudkhoja Behbudiy, who were executed for 'nationalist deviations' after briefly modernizing their culture. The narrative covers the destruction of historical sites in Bukhara and Samarkand under Stalin’s Great Terror, the replacement of the Arabic script with Latin and then Cyrillic to sever ties with Islamic heritage, and the creation…
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