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How important was Turkmenistan to the USSR?

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Not very. Until 1991, Turkmenistan was a backwater of the former Soviet Union, an arid corner of the empire of use mostly as a buffer zone between Russia and the potentially troublesome Muslim nations of Iran and Afghanistan. read more

Historically inhabited by the Indo-Iranians, the written history of Turkmenistan begins with its annexation by the Achaemenid Empire of Ancient Iran. In the 8th century AD, Turkic-speaking Oghuz tribes moved from Mongolia into present-day Central Asia. read more

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