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Read more about the article Memorandum to the Turkestan CEC about kalym
Alexandra Vasilevna Artyukhina

Memorandum to the Turkestan CEC about kalym

  • Post author:ivansimic
  • Post published:June 29, 2020
  • Post category:Testimonial

The CC Zhenotdel believes that kalym [bride money] must be abolished for all ethnic groups in the Turkestan Republic that use kalym, e.g., the Uzbek, Kirgiz, Turkmen, Uighur and other…

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Read more about the article Nina Popova, a Soviet politician
Nina Popova

Nina Popova, a Soviet politician

  • Post author:ivansimic
  • Post published:June 16, 2020
  • Post category:Testimonial

Machine-gunner Mashuk Mahmetova, a Kazakh girl volunteer, fought till her last breath, repulsing three successive enemy counterattacks. Nineteen-year-old Alia Maldagulova, another Kazakh girl, was an expert scout and supplied our…

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Read more about the article Dušanka Kovačević, a Yugoslav politican, 1950
Dusanka Kovacevic

Dušanka Kovačević, a Yugoslav politican, 1950

  • Post author:ivansimic
  • Post published:June 9, 2020
  • Post category:Testimonial

Behind the veil lay our political backwardness, behind the veil lay theilliteracy of the Muslim women, behind the veil lay the hard, slavish lifeof an unequal woman in Bosnia and…

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