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How The Soviet Union Erased Tajikistan’s Persian Identity
Imagine you wake up one day, and the alphabet you have used your entire life is suddenly illegal. The beautiful, graceful curves of Persian script, the same script that wrote the Shahname, the Persian Book of Kings, were replaced with harsh, boring, and ugly-looking Cyrillic blocks.
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