Word: kirghizes
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...million. The free, windswept steppes that once knew the horsetail banners and the hoofbeat thunder of Genghis Khan and his ferocious Golden Horde are now filled with the clank of harvesters in wheatfields stretching to the horizon. Communist Young Pioneers on vacation play volleyball on river banks where Kirghiz nomads used to light their campfires. In the frozen north, villages that were cut off from the world by the fall of the first snow now get airlifted supplies and visitors all winter long...
...steppe, a black earth meadowland which, when properly farmed, is among the most productive soils in the world; and farthest south, the deserts. In this overwhelming setting, Russia made its way much as the U.S. did in its Far West. In each case there were nomadic tribes-the Tartars, Kirghiz and Samoyeds in Siberia like the Indians in America-who learned to their cost that bows and arrows seldom win against muskets and cannon...
...Bourgeois nationalism," as the Communists call such local patriotism, has long been the Soviet Union's most nagging domestic headache. Ukrainians and Georgians, Armenians and Kazakhs, Tartars, Yakuts and Kirghiz-all have their separate histories, their languages, culture and pride; all have been conquered by the more numerous Great Russians whose rulers made Moscow their capital. The Bolshevik Revolution theoretically gave regional autonomy to the subject nationalities, but, in practice, Communist policy has intensified Great Russian chauvinism and liquidated local liberties in the name of Sovietization...
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...