What are some good documentaries on central Asia?

The Cancerous elements actually move to the Middle East and join the shitfest there.

>I need proofs

He's right, On top of that, much of Central Asia had influence from the Soviet Union. Some learned that the only way to obtain the kind of society you want is through secular force.

Are you denying that the Greeks are an enormous part of Afghan history?

No, I'm saying the Greeks carried pederasty into Afghanistan.

So? Then it's been part of Afghan culture for more than 2000 years. Are you going to add "well Uzbekistan and Turkmenistan both ultimately derive the idea of a secular state from the Westphalian Peace?"

Can you show me this huge part of Greek culture in Afghanistan that survived after the destruction of Greco-Bactaria and the Seleucid Empire?

is it true that tajiks are just sunni persians

Tajiks are Persians who settled outside of Iran into Khorasan; hence why Tajik is the same as Persian and only different on a regional level with minor differences in inflection and totally intelligible with "Fars" Persian and Dari Persian. They were a bit more influenced by Turkic and Mongolic cultures but are still Persians. Thankfully they maintain their ties with their Persian kin on the basis of language, culture, and history rather then differences in religious denominations.

>greater iran
a mix of iran and india would be more appropriate

It doesn't really extend into the Hindu Kush if we're talking racially/ethnically here.

>why is there so much less turmoil in central asia than you'd expect? All of these countries are highly-multiethnic and some are quite resource rich. You'd think this would be a recipe for civil conflict, and yet you hardly hear about it.

It's a bit more complicated than that, but the most important factor is that 70 years of soviet aggressive atheism and enforced multi-ethnic coexistance did their job

Nowadays southern republics of the region (Uzbekistan, Turkmenistan and Tajikistan) have turned into basically one ethnicity tyrannies with Russians and other people who came here during USSR times pushed out or just naturally leaving to their "historical homeland" on their own volition.

Also it's not as calm as you think, Tajikistan DID have a civil war after the collapse, Uzbekistan has some occasional unrest here and there. Kyrgyzstan obviously had a series of US-backed "revolutions" similar to the ones in Georgia and Ukraine to lessen the influence of Russia.

>also lots of nomads
outside of Afghanistan, nomadic way of life was destroyed completely.

Soviets modernised their Central Asian republics immensely (at the cost of few civil wars and millions of lives during collectivisation mind you), building most of the cities in the region, educating locals (so that they can rule over themselves and have representation in the ruling communist Party and be overall useful citizen of SU), building all the moden infrastructure (roads, hospitals, schools, entire cities and industries) from complete scratch. Before soviets came this region was easily Africa tier with rampant feudalism and barely any industries.

Because central asian republic were "go-to" destination for Stalin to send people he doesn't like Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan and Uzbekistan were flooded with exiles and "enemies of the people".

During WWII Stalin was afraid that chechen people will rebel so he ordered army to force them all out of Caucasus and transfer them to CA

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>Some learned that the only way to obtain the kind of society you want

i.e. the cronies at the top of the food chain in the Soviet era used strong arm tactics to brutally suppress dissent and use the same cruel human-rights violations to keep themselves in power. It's not about secular force - or would you consider ISIS to be using that same kind of 'secular force' to maintain an unchallenged grip on it's own power in places where it is rooted?

>why is there so much less turmoil in central asia than you'd expect?

Maybe because you're incredibly ignorant and your westernised media bubble doesn't find central asia that compelling of a news story to feed it's dumb readership - after all the Middle east or 'Evul China!' which dominate USA foreign policy are far more interesting.

Central asian states have amongst the worst human rights track records of any country with brutal dictatorships and censorship.

ISIS uses religious force, not secular force

Korean settlers have been historically "voting with their feet" into Russian Far East lands as early as Joseon era. This continued after Korea became protectorate of Japan.

Seeing growing population of Koreans (now Japanese subjects) on the Far East Stalin saw them as potential Japanese spies and fifth column so they were deported. Some half of million of Koreans were put on freight cars and forcibly relocated into the sticks of Central Asia.

Volga Germans for the same reason were deported into Central Asia as well.

Another contributing factor to melting pot of nations in CA were labour camps of Gulag system. Up to 800 000 prisoners went through Karlag and Aljir (labour camp specifically for "wifes of public traitors" [!]). Many of those who did their time stayed there. These were political prisoners, dissidents, criminals and just random peasants who were caught with some unaccounted grains during soviet famines from across the entirety of SU.

Speaking of. According to some estimations, a million of local population of kazakhstan died of hunger during series of famines in the 30s.

Where am i even going with this? I am showing the trend which led to paradoxical fact that kazakhs became a minority in their own land.

Final wave of migrants came during Virgin Lands Campaign where Khrushev encouraged soviet youth (using both financial and propagandist means) to relocate and develop vast lands for wheat production. Overall, it was a success and helped to raise grain production but it also led to local kazakhs got completely lost among immigrants from other parts of SU. Only 30% of overall population of Kazakh SSR were actually Kazakhs which was grounds for dissolution or at least renaming of the republic but it never happened.

This created insanely diverse state: you had russians and kazakhs having to live and work alongside germans, koreans, various smattering of Caucasus peoples: armenians, georgians, aforementioned chechens and so on and on and on.

to unite all these peoples (not just in CA but across entire SU) government spread the idea that you are soviet citizen firstly and most imoprtantly and only then -- representative of such and such ethnicity.

This biggest dividing factor in previous times was religion and but that was taken care of with general policy looking down on public practice of religion.

Then languages. Education program taught everyone russian as a main language and then -- maybe local languages.

There were no such thing as ghetto settlements (that also cause division) because people didn't had a choice in deciding where to live, people all lived together, sometimes literally -- in communal apartments:

youtube.com/watch?v=D_mVylRi_T0

This type of life doesn't exactly leave much space for racism.

Following the collapse of the USSR, newly formed CA republics had a choice to either go full Ataturk "X-stan for X-ers only!" genociding everyone who doesn't belong to titular ethnicity or try to support existing multi-ethnic society.

Even setting aside humanistic reason not to do genocide, at least in Kazakhstan it was simply impossible to achieve: with almost half of the civilian population at the time being "russians & co" and more importantly -- even bigger proportion of non-natives in the army and industries.