Soviet Central Asia
1920–1991 · Event
The khanates become five Soviet republics with borders drawn in Moscow — cotton monoculture, closed cities, buried mosques, and the lines the modern map inherits.
On these timelines: The Silk Road & the Steppe, Master, Russia & the USSR
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