I still have no idea on how the former USSR ethnic groups were located. A real mess.
This guy Bald and Bankrupt from England and his female friend from Belarus are in country Kyrgyzstan where they speak Kyrgyz and it is next to a country Uzbekistan where they speak Uzbek aka Turki. Inside of Kyrgyzstan is an enclave Sokh where they speak Tajik, apparently a part of Uzbekistan. They are inside Kyrgyzstan and try to drive into Sokh enclave. They are turned back as it is a border crossing only for citizens of Kyrgyzstan and Uzbekistan. They try a different crossing but get stuck in the snow over night and get towed out by friendly locals. This is the second video below.
The Sokh enclave is a very symbolical place in the Fergana Valley and in Central Asia. It is mostly populated by ethnic Tajiks, belongs to Uzbekistan, and is located in the territory of Kyrgyzstan.
In a different episode he learns there is a flight from Uzbekistan into enclave Sokho inside Uzbekistan so they give it a try. It works. In a soviet bi plane.
So he finds a cab driver to show him the sights and insults him and everyone for the lousy sights.
At 25 min Then the guy invites him to his very nice home and serves him tea with his family and his female companion says he is an A-hole. :lolh:
I love this stuff.
Invited inside the nice house in the second video.
https://youtu.be/34XymEDY9Wc?t=1494a 2 min history lesson later on they try and fail to enter the enclave in the first video.
https://youtu.be/dmKRNQfp_Y0a shot of where the first USSR cosmonaut stayed to recover after this space flight.
https://youtu.be/dmKRNQfp_Y0?t=607they pick up a couple to Kyrgyz babushkas to give them a ride.
They say yes there is a local tradition of bride stealing and of course they were both stolen.
https://youtu.be/dmKRNQfp_Y0?t=1500ForestForTheTrees
ForestForTheTrees
4 months ago
The word Sokh comes from "Sogdia", which was the name of the people living in Uzbekistan and Tajikistan before the Turks lived there. The people in Sokh are Tajiks because the Sogdians were Persian, unlike most of the Turkic inhabitants of modern Uzbekistan and Kyrgyzstan. Alexander the Great's wife Roxana was the daughter of a Sogdian noble. The Sogdians were the greatest traders of the Silk Road, and the Sogdian language was its lingua franca all the way to the Byzantine Empire.
In the 8th century, a Sogdian general named An Lushan revolted in China, causing one of its worst civil wars in history - the An Lushan rebellion. It is believed that up to 2/3rds of the population may have died in the war, and as a result, the Chinese instituted a policy of Sogdian genocide once they regained power. All Sogdians in China were killed. This, coupled with the Turkic and Muslim conquests of Central Asia led to the decline and ultimate extinction of the Sogdian people, and now all that is left are places they once named.