Word: kirghiz
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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From the lofty, windy plateau of Central Asia in the shadow of the high Pamirs came Turkmen, Tajiks and Uzbeks to establish three more border republics in 1925. Slope-eyed Kazakhs and Kirghiz were found ready to form republics, Soviet style...
...more pious believers among their Mohammedan citizens, a Moslem congress has been convened at Tashkent, capital of the Soviet Republic of Uzbek. The congress chose as leader of Russia's Mohammedans 82-year-old Ichan Babachan Abdumadchiktchanow. It also called upon all Mohammedans in the Uzbek, Tajik, Turkomen, Kirghiz and Kazak Soviet Socialist Republics to "wage a merciless fight against the German usurpers...
...Please tell all our acquaintances that we are alive. In the word "alive," everything is said. After 22 days of an infernal journey, they brought us to the depths of Asia, the Kirghiz Steppes. There is no tree in view, nor even any grass anywhere. They have changed our station three times already, and we have now arrived here after two days' travel by ox cart...
...husbands legs have given away. [Since this letter, he has died. He was 79 years old.] I have to do everything for him-dress him, wash him, feed him. . . . There is no doctor of pharmacy anywhere around. . . . There are only Kalmucks and Kirghiz people here. Some receive packages of food. If possible, send us some. . . . The most important things for us are some flour, sugar, tea and some sort of fats. We would be waiting for these packages as children wait for Father Christmas. Of course, we don't know whether they would ever reach...