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Word: basmachi (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 2010-2019
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...picture the Red Army parading through the plaza in Stalin's day. History buffs should visit the Frunze House Museum, tel: (996-312) 66 06 07, a thatched cottage once home to Mikhail Vasilyevich Frunze, the Bolshevik general who led his forces to victory against the region's basmachi (Muslim guerillas) in 1920. The State Historical Museum, tel: (996-312) 62 61 05, with its outlandish shrine to Lenin, is a must...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Weekend in Bishkek | 1/28/2010 | See Source »

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