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#Uzbekistan: The shadow of Soviet State Security. Gregory Copley, Defense & Foreign Affairs

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🗓️ 3 May 2023

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#Uzbekistan: The shadow of Soviet State Security. Gregory Copley, Defense & Foreign Affairs
https://thediplomat.com/2023/05/a-closer-look-at-the-growing-chinese-presence-in-uzbekistan/

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0:55.0

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1:00.6

Mirza Yayaf and the transition from the Soviet era all through Central Asia to what comes

1:08.8

next.

1:09.8

And Gregory, I tell the story of walking one day from the hotel where I was staying for a

1:15.5

conference down the street over a very grassy land, a couple of streets, no business around

1:22.1

me.

1:23.1

No particular reason for me to stroll, except for I came across the historical museum.

1:28.1

And I went inside, enjoyed it very much.

1:30.8

I was the only visitor Central Asia transformed from the Turkic invasions and even farther

1:38.0

back into prehistory to the Soviet era, including a clock that had been broken the day of the

1:44.2

Tashkent earthquake that was extremely damaging the 20th century.

1:49.1

Then afterwards I was idle and wondered around and realized, according to the map that

1:55.0

I was looking at, I was standing opposite the former State Security offices in downtown

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