@xixedhellonja@tacitdimension There was indeed forms of development, from my perspective any conquest of muslim lands by non muslims is a tragedy, but to pretend there was no positive developments in an generally bad situation is not constructive.
@IbnMaghrebi The new business model for US / European satellite OEMs is building sovereign constellations for countries in asia / africa, even in the bid for tech sovereignty eastern countries are still commissioning american companies lmao
@tacitdimension I think the argument is less so about the detriments or benefits of the state atheism policy and more so about the success of the russians in achieving mass literacy, urbanisation, institutions, social modernisation, industrial capacity, etc in central asia