What even happens here? Do these countries have any political importance?

>>510244065 (OP)
I’ve been to Turkmenistan
It’s like warhammer 40k irl. Gold everywhere

>>510244065 (OP)
kazakhstan very nice

What’s up with that area in northern Tajikistan? Are they trying to cock block each other?

>>510244065 (OP)
They host gulags for Russia. The gulags never got shut down and kept running right thru the collapse of the Soviet Union and still operate to this day.

Russia maintained hundreds of thousands of prisoners in their gulag system after the collapse of the Soviet Union and almost all of them are there because of antisemitism. Everyone went home except for the antisemites

>>510244652
Sauceage?

Home of the Aryan People until Turkics took it over in the middle ages

Silk Road countries.

Kyrgyzstan used to have a lot of Nestorian Christians.

>Kazakhstan
Big empty space. Semi-nomadic horse people. Tons of natural gas and oil profits that all get embezzled by the country's elite. Very close ally with Russia but not as close as Belarus.
>Kygyzstan
Like Kazakhstan but with only the horses and none of the other things. More mountains, less aligned with Russia.
>Tajikistan
Like Kyrgyzstan but with less horses and way more mountains. One of the most culturally fascinating countries. Every 70 miles is a new ethnicity because of how hard it is to get around all the mountains. One of the poorest nations on earth. Bad education system.
>Uzbekistan
This is the Silk Road country. This is where Samarkand is. During the Cold War, Egypt changed allegiance to the US and stopped selling cotton to the Soviets. The Uzbek SSR shored up the cotton supply using its rivers that flow from Tajikistan. This is what caused the Aral Sea to dry up. It is the worst man-made natural disaster in history. Decently agrarian, good cuisine, and geopolitically friendly, they see the most tourism of any other Central Asian country.
>Turkmenistan
Weird country with wacky dictator. Floating on natural gas and all of the profits are embezzled by the elite. Tourism visas are very expensive. Geopolitically neutral, not aligned with any country, but most government contracts are granted to US-based multinational corporations.

>>510244065 (OP)
Aside from leeching off of Russia? Nothing, just drug trafficking.

>>510244366
It's just retarded Soviets drawing random borders guaranteeing future ethnic conflicts. The same nonsense in the caucasus and obviously Ukraine.

>>510244065 (OP)
>kazakia
deserts, nomads, pastors and hydrocarbons
>uzbekia
dunno, they are related to wiggers in china
>kirgizia
mountain kazaks, but identical to tajiks yet at a blood feud with tajiks over fergana valley
>turkmenia
isolated country with a cult leader worse than best korea
>tajikia
tajik was a russian derogatory term for persian, but somehow soviets convinced them to call themselves that, just so they wouldn't seek unity with persia, they speak persian and write cyrilic, unlike the rest which have turkic languages

>>510244065 (OP)
Very nice

>>510244844

>>510244065 (OP).

Originally White. That's originally like a Hyperborea in Asia

>>510244065 (OP)
Russian vassal states

>>510244897
>Aryan
>Ar-yan
>Ar-an
>A-ran
>E-ran
>I-ran
>Iran

This region is dominated by Turkic and Indo-Iranian languages. The Tajiks speak an Indo-Iranian language and most other ethnic groups speak Turkic languages.

These borders were drawn artificially by the Russian Empire mostly during the reign of Catherine the Great. The ethno-linguistic groups bleed across the borders. Uzbekistan is the most ethnically diverse with loads of Kyrgyz, Tajiks, Kazakhs and Uzbeks living side-by-side. Turkmenistan is the least ethnically diverse.

>>510244366
That is some weird border gore.

>>510245055
So they're steppe mongols to this day.

>>510245435
Catherine began the conquest. Stalin drew the borders to stoke ethnic tensions so they'd rely on the state to keep peace.

>>510245589
Russians were such nigger retards to not fix the borders before the soviet Union disintegration especially the east Ukraine and crimea part. Did they really believe Ukraine will always be their little puppet and always stay friendly with them....

>>510245494
If I were to bluntly stereotype the main ethnic groups in the region, then yes but only for the Kazakhs and Kyrgyz. Turkmen are sheep and goat herders. Uzbeks agrarian bread-eaters.

Tajiks can't be stereotyped in the same way. One community is going to be very culturally different then the one that's two or three mountains over. If they have roads, they're dirt. If cars are driving on the roads, they're Ladas with plenty of spare parts in the trunk. Most of the time you're on foot or on a donkey. Leaving your village to go someplace else is a days-long journey. Isolated communities develop unique cultures over time.

>>510244065 (OP)
>Turkmenistan
North korea level Police state
>Uzbekistan
largest population, has a successionist movement(karakalpakstan)closely releated to Iran
>Tajikistan
Consist of the secular sunni Tajiks in the west who make up most of the population amd the largely Shia pamiris in the east. Both are closely releated to Iranians
>Kyrgyzstan
Leans closer to turks
>Kazakhstan
Mostly unremarkable. Has notable Russian minority.

>>510244366
it's called the Fergana Valley. the countries are mountains then dip into a valley with rivers in it so it's good for farming. they drew the borders based on the ethnic groups there, Tajiks are mostly in the Pamir and Zarafshan mountain range, Kyrgyzstan is in the Alay, Fergana and Tian Shan mountain range. Uzbekistan is all a flat plain but all 3 countries are in the Fergana Valley and that's where they're cockblocking each other.

>>510247420

>>510244065 (OP)
extremely high birth rate for some reason, even higher than many African countries (3+ per woman)

>>510247420
insane to think the vast majority of Uzbekistan's population (almost 40 million) lives in that narrow strip while most of the country is uninhabited. That's Egypt-tier density

>>510247746
>insane to think the vast majority of Uzbekistan's population (almost 40 million) lives in that narrow strip while most of the country is uninhabited.

i mean...

>>510247746
they all are

>>510245435
Tajik is just Farsi, but written in Cryllic. If you know Farsi/Dari you can understand Tajik pretty much.

>>510249344

>Russia that Russia this

I see a lot of hohols are here in this thread
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Anyway it's just churka lands, most of the slave workforce here is taken from there, also drugs

basically Mexico of Russia

>Baikonur ruins and rubble from the soviet spase shuttle project, dried up sea, mountains and horse shit

>>510244065 (OP)
Political importance? Yea britbong golems, Ukraine 2.0, 2.1, 2.2 etc... Just give it a few years.

>>510244065 (OP)
>What even happens here?
Slow shift into Chinese influence sphere.
>Do these countries have any political importance?
Currently not particular. Could change if Russia ever manages to detach themselves from Ukraine and start looking in that region for easier targets, which would likely mean that USA/EU/China also get more interested in the area.

>>510244065 (OP)
>Do these countries have any political importance?
Kazakhstan is the biggest producer of uranium. The world is going nuclear again, that makes it really important. Despite that noone talks about it, which is weird.

>>510249344
As for the Turkic ones, if you know Turkish they look pretty similar, but I've seen them say it's not but Turks are usually idiots

>reply to this post or your mother will die in her sleep tonight
>Turkish: bu post cevap ver yoksa annen bu gece uykusunda ölecek
>Uzbek: bu postga javob yozing yoki onang bugun tunda uyqusida o'ladi
>Kyrgyz: uşul postko joop ber, bolboso apaŋ bügün tün uykusunda ölöt
>Kazakh: osı postqa jawap ber, äytpese anañ bügin tünde uyqısında öledi
>Turkmen: bu postga jogap ber, ýogsam ejeň şu gije ukusynda öler

Those all the look the same to me, some spelling variations and maybe different conjugation but if you know Turkish and its grammar you should be able to understand them all when spoken.

>uykusunda
>uyku - sleep
>uykusu - her sleep
>uykusunda - in her sleep

>bu - this
>bugun - today (this day)
>bugun tunda/bu gece - tonight

verb in Turkish
>ölmek - die
>-(y)ecek - future tense
>ölecek - will die

verb in Uzbek
>ol'moq - die
>-di - future tense
>ol'adi - will die

Not hard at all.

>>510244366
Stalin did a geographic shitpost

>>510250839
it's not, it's drawn like that for a reason because of the Fergana Valley. 100% of the time someone saying it's border gore doesn't know what the Fergana Valley is.

>>510250718
imo the Uzbek could be even more simplified

>write - yozing
>reply - javob bermoq
same as the Turkish one, but b instead of v

> bu postga javob ber yoki onang bugun tunda uyqusida o'ladi

They all look the same now

>>510244065 (OP)
>kazakhstan
Turkified chinese gypsies who until recently lived as travelers and ate horses in their yurts. Then the russians came, took the lands from the uzbeks and kyrgyz, created a country for them and civilized these chinks.
>uzbekistan
Another turkified mongols from the jochi's ulus and local sarts, whose entire culture revolves around boiled rice with carrots(Plov).
>turkmenistan
walmart iran/north korea, brownoid autocratic shithole, must be due to persian genes.
>tajikistan
half gypsy slaves(lyuli) from india/pakistan, half arabic who speak persian dialect. The most stupid and poor people in our region. Basically, they only become terrorists and garbage collectors.
>Kyrgyz Republic
The most ancient people of the region and the most civilized (because democratic) among these monkeys.
Descendants of those same Indo-European pastoralist Aryans who until recently looked like fully paleface people, but because of their thirst for asian pussy, eventually became like chinks themselves.

>>510244065 (OP)
They are all poorer than Uyghurland

>>510247746
They are too far away from the ocean and surrounded by mountains, so no good food production

>>510244065 (OP)
They've got some pretty stellar fertility rates in Kazakhstan. I honestly wont be surprised if they become quite an important power in the future. They will probably start outbreeding the West, the East, and even Africa to an extent, because Africas fertility rate is dependent on them being poor as shit, so as they develop that might change.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jxgfCH83XZI

>>510252579
>>510250718
I missed Uyghur

>bu post jawab ber yaki 'aping byɡyn kechte 'uyqusiinda 'ulidu
>بۇ يازمىغا جاۋاب قايتۇرۇڭ ياكى ئاپىڭىز بۈگۈن كەچتە ئۇخلاپ ئۆلىدۇ

>>510244065 (OP)
>What even happens here?
Chinky oil industry and endless desert.
>Do these countries have any political importance?
No they are complete bitches trying to balance between Russia and China.

>>510253466
>بۇ پست جاۋاب بەر ياكى ئاپىڭ بۈگۈن كەچتە ئۇيقۇسىىندا ئۆلىدۇ

the translators use the wrong words, قايتۇرۇڭ qayturung means "return" not "send" like بەر ber and it's in the plural (ung), not singular. why they wouldn't just use the Turkish default I don't know, perhaps to make them look more different than they really are?

>>510244065 (OP)
>Do these countries have any political importance?
the most important thing they do is exist underneath the railways between China and Europe.

>>510253064
That would require them having a lot of farmland, which entails unfucking the Aral Sea, which I have no idea how it might be done for the rest of the Stans

>>510253064
Their fertility rate is the same as Afghanistan and Pakistan, the norm for the region. You're comparing it to Russia, Central Asia isn't urbanized at all. They are almost all farmers or yak herders with low populations even if it's increasing. We only notice it now because someone drew a border around them, not the other way around.

>>510253064
Uzbek: Ularning tug'ilish darajasi Afg'oniston va Pokiston bilan bir xil, mintaqa uchun norma. Siz uni Rossiya bilan solishtiryapsiz, Markaziy Osiyo umuman urbanizatsiyalanmagan. Ularning deyarli barchasi dehqonlar yoki chorvadorlar bo'lib, aholi soni ortib borayotgan bo'lsa ham. Biz buni hozir payqayapmiz, chunki kimdir ularning atrofida chegara chizgan, aksincha emas.

>>510254630
>>510254772
Does this means cities like Astana and Almaty aren't booming, just the the countryside?

>>510254860
Nobody lives in those cities, not quite ghost towns but they're not metropolises. They built them in like 2010.

>>510254987
I would also say the rural/urban divide hardly exists in those cities. You walk 30 minutes in any direction and you will have left the city.

There is no difference between countries like Romania or Kazakhstan. They are ex soviet shitholes.

>>510247829
>2 nukes and we could solve the zigger problem for good
I hope to see it in my lifetime

>>510255287
Romania is in the EU, everyone has left Romania. Kazakhs have nowhere else to go, but they don't need more space.