This photo shows the Red Army burning burqas and other Islamic veils in the town square of Andijan, Uzbekistan, on March 8, 1927, to mark International Women’s Day.
The Soviet Union’s forceful secularization of Central Asia was one of the factors that shaped the region differently from Afghanistan.
@morris_que14 I never knew Chinese were good warriors. They are good bureaucrats, cooks, farmers, workers. But not the warriors, soldiers.
That honor should go to Mongols.