Word: ashkhabad
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Lessons of Ashkhabad. Would the Ministers soon consider their visit to the Yar equally unprofitable? If they bogged down in their task of making peace for Germany, there were other things for them to do in Moscow. For instance, they could look about them and learn...
...pointed up Soviet preoccupation with that region. Obviously designed to please the strategically scattered Moslem millions, it showed faithful Mohammedans bent in prayer at a Moscow mosque. Soviet iconography included another striking symbol of the strange alliance and devious devotions of which Soviet policy is capable: a rug from Ashkhabad (capital of the Turkomen Soviet Socialist Republic), into which was woven the likeness of the late Prophet Karl Marx...