Word: turkic
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Asia's Heart. The 90,000 round-faced, slant-eyed Tuvinians live in the geographical heart of Asia. They are mostly of Turkic and Mongol stock. With their 1,200,000 cattle, horses, sheep, goats, yaks and reindeer, they occupy an area about as large as Missouri. Moscow regards their evolution from nomadic tribalism to Soviet comradeship as a model of its kind...