Word: tajiks
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Road to Noalchali. Across the northern frontier, in the Tajik Socialist Soviet Republic, loomed Mt. Stalin (24,590 ft.) and Mt. Lenin (23,386 ft.), mightiest peaks of the U.S.S.R. Gandhi's thoughts last week turned to the lowest part of India, the mushy flats of Noakhali at the mouth of the Ganges. That part of Bengal, where Moslems and Hindus are mixed, will become part of Pakistan...
...with the 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...
...Uzbek Republic (which produces more than half the U. S. S. R.'s cotton) hundreds of thousands of Uzbek and Tajik farmers last year produced a "miracle": in a little more than a month they dug a canal, 170 miles long, 25 yards wide and 15 to 30 feet deep, from the Narin River to the great cotton-growing region south of the ancient city of Kokand. This year the Great Fergana Canal was lengthened to 217 miles, now irrigates 838 square miles, improves the irrigation...
...foreign correspondent has yet checked up on this rosy picture. But that it is not based wholly on self-delusion is shown by the fact that while European Russia gained 12% in population from 1926 to 1939, the Turkomen Republic grew 25%, Uzbek 37%, Tajik 43%. Only a real boom can produce such population increases, even in nations where labor moves from place to place at the orders of a dictator...