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Soviet Central Asia

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noun

  1. Also called: Russian Turkestan.   West Turkestan.  the region of the former Soviet Union now occupied by Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, and Uzbekistan

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The U.S. exit is a security headache for Moscow, which sees nearby former Soviet Central Asia as part of its southern defensive flank and fears the spread of radical Islamism.

From Reuters • Sep. 1, 2021

The Muslim peoples of Soviet Central Asia called for religious freedom.

From Textbooks • Jan. 1, 2012

Yelena Georgievna Bonner lived a turbulent life from her birth on Feb. 15, 1923 in Merv, in Soviet Central Asia.

From New York Times • Jun. 19, 2011

The unrest in Kyrgyzstan did not appear likely to spread across former Soviet Central Asia, however.

From Salon • Apr. 7, 2010

This is why the star patterns in a given constellation do not change as we go from, say, Soviet Central Asia to the American Midwest.

From "Cosmos" by Carl Sagan

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