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>In June 1941, Soviet scientists Tashmuhammed Kari-Niyazov and Mikhail Gerasimov were sent by Stalin to Samarkand to exhume the body of Timur, one of the most cruel warlords of the medieval age, for study. The goal was basically to see if his tomb was really his tomb or not, what his face looked like, and if he was actually physically lame. Stalin had a morbid curiosity about the notorious warlord, as did many Russians. For centuries, Russia had suffered under and paid tribute to fearsome nomadic steppe warriors, and their histories were entwined.The keepers of the tomb warned the team about ancient curses, but they were rudely pushed aside, and their warnings were discounted. The casket of Timur was cut from precious black jade, the largest single piece in the world. Upon its opening, a pungent, sweet smell arose, which was supposedly the smell of several curses being unleashed but was probably due to the scented embalming fluids used to preserve the remains for burial. One of the inscriptions on the inside of the tomb (in addition to the one above) said, “Whosoever opens my tomb, shall unleash an invader more terrible than I.”The remains were carefully, but unceremoniously, packed up and prepared for flight back to Moscow. Two days later, the German wehrmacht invaded the Soviet Union, launching Operation Barbarossa.
>when the germans have reached to the volga, Stalin wanted to try his luck, he had chosen this time to have Timur’s remains flown back to Samarkand for a proper reburial with full rites. He chose to have the plane carrying the historic corpse fly over the front at Stalingrad for a month before detouring back to Timur’s place of rest. Timur’s reinterment by a few weeks. Paulus and The Sixth Army surrendered at Stalingrad.