/siberia/ - Off-topic

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• "Land of Cavalrymen"
  

>Kazakhstan

• "Land of Nomads"
  

>Kyrgyzstan

• "Land of forty (clans)"
  

>Pakistan

• "Land of the pure"
  

>Tajikistan

• "Land of Persians who are not arabs nor turks"
  

>Turkmenistan

• "Land of Turks who are more Turk than other Turks"
  

>Uzbekistan

• "Land of the guy who was his own man/master."
  
  
  

>Kazakhstan
Formerly nomadic. Still has a large population of Russians (and various mutts) from Soviet times (other ex-USSR Central Asians have some Russians but not as many).
>Kyrgyzstan
Basically the same as Kyrgystan but smaller/poorer. They have issues with their Uzbek minority. Kyrgyz are also the most Mongol-looking Central Asians.
>Uzbekistan
Unlike the above groups, Uzbeks were historically sedentary people. This is the most populous Central Asian country (though not the largest geographically). They have issues with their Tajik minority.
>Turkmenistan
North Korea-tier isolationists. Weird cult of personality too.
>Tajikistan
Unlike the above groups, they speak Persian instead of a Turkic language.
>Afghanistan
They weren't part of the Russian Empire or the Soviet Union, so they aren't secularized and don't speak any Russian. They have a bunch of different ethnic groups but the largest are the Pashtuns. Pashto and Persian are both official languages.

so basically they all were about steppes, then get invaded by russians, let russians live in their countries and those get well in education and become gov officials later on also beign russian lab rat for tests then ussr falls, gets independence while moscu says they did nothing wrong and mostly russian desc goes back to moscu. Now half their population grief their lost culture while youth tries to find new ways of life., also most have rich resources so can doing or already doing good economically.