It's impossible to sugar-coat the fact that, since its inception, Uzbekistan was intended to be a genocidal project against the Tajiks. The erasure of Tajik culture and identity was one if its founding principles, and this project is still ongoing.
It's impossible to sugar-coat the fact that, since its inception, Uzbekistan was intended to be a genocidal project against the Tajiks. The erasure of Tajik culture and identity was one if its founding principles, and this project is still ongoing.
At least China calls Uyghur culture "Uyghur" instead of insisting that it's "Chinese", but calling Tajik things "Uzbek" is almost like calling Palestinian things "Israeli".