Word: turkmen
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...treaty provides that the Russians can build a dam on the Murghab River, to irrigate the barren steppes of the neighboring Turkmen Soviet Republic. It also consolidates Russia's hold on the strategically important Trans-Caspian Railroad, a branch of which ends at Kushka, near Afghan and Iranian oil. In return, Afghanistan got a couple of small islands...
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...