How the Tajik SSR slid towards Civil War

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• HA

  @HamzaPKR · 2 years ago (edited)

  Not many big YouTube channels would make 2 full episodes on a rather small Central Asian nation. Thanks to this channel for going beyond the usual focus areas (big powers and major conflicts)

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• CU

  @cuber5003 · 2 years ago

  Glad to see a video on this topic, the Tajik civil war is hardly covered in detail outside of a few books

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• SI

  @Sierra_Oscar_Golf_X-ray · 2 years ago

  As someone who would like to think im pretty well versed on the USSR and Eastern Bloc compared to most people in my country, i will admit this was a subject i knew close to nothing before this video. Thank you for pushing out consistently entertaining and educational content. You raise the bar on this platform for historical content.

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• BA

  @Barricade379 · 2 years ago

  Very informative. I love videos about the separate Soviet republics. Please make some of those after the next Tajik episode

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• GO

  @goldenfiberwheat238 · 2 years ago

  Given that it had a border with Afghanistan, I’m assuming a lot of Soviet troops were stationed there in the 80s. Surely that had an effect on its stability

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• EV

  @evanmurphy2473 · 2 years ago

  Wherever Molotov shows up in a photo trajedy follows.

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• WI

  @Willpolita · 2 years ago

  Something I noticed is that most of what happened to this country is very similar to what happened to several African countries.<br><br>-A locality where people feel more represented by their tribes than by an invented country or nationality.<br>-A delicate balance, like a house of cards, between these tribes.<br>-A foreign country, with no connection to its citizens, trying at all costs to improve the country, &quot;civilize,&quot; and move people out of rural areas.<br>-It disrupts the balance between the tribes and villages.<br>-Suddenly leaves the country and abandons them to their own fate.<br>-Quick elections where the opposition doesn’t accept the results well.<br>-Civil war.

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  @100domathon · 2 years ago

  Soviet Collapse was violent including in the late 1980s. Many violent riots and ethnic violence 1986-1991 in the different Soviet Republics and uprisings the Soviet Army tried to crush

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• FL

  @florinivan6907 · 2 years ago (edited)

  While conflicts did break out after its collapse overall it was far less brutal than the collapse of the Tsarist Empire. That was a full blown civil war fought from Warsaw to Vladivostock with an excess of 7 million dead. By contrast these conflicts would be a secondary front during the Russian civil war. Nevermind the elephant in the room. None of these conflicts involved nukes. If you use this metric the soviet collapse was mostly peaceful. Observers in the early 90s used the Russian civil war as a standard of bad.

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• AG

  @AGINCY · 9 months ago

  Such a &nbsp;great channel. No typical propaganda and overall coverage, but the actual hard work research. As a tajik american this is now one of my all time most favorite videos and channels

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• JO

  @JohnSmith-jj2yd · 2 years ago

  I&apos;ve missed my Saturday night Cold War videos! And great topic!

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• BE

  @bendafyddgillard · 2 years ago

  &quot;the road to hell is paved with good intentions&quot;. I believe Gorbachev had the best of intentions but clearly an inadequate understanding of the situation. Not sure what would have been the right thing to do, though. Maybe allow it to divide up along tribal lines but with free movement, allow each one to develop gently then they&apos;ll merge when they&apos;re ready.

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