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The Winter of


            ISLAM





       and the Spring to Come                          UZBEKISTAN





                                                 Former communists

                                                  continue to oppress

                                                                   Muslims













                                       T      he Muslim Turkic republics that
                                              began to gain their independence
                                              after the collapse of the Soviet Union
                                       soon found themselves up against Russian
                                       expansionism. During the above-mentioned
                                       period, Russia was still being run by people
                                       from communist times who retained the
                                       same old mentality, and the country contin-
                                       ued to regard Central Asia as its own "back
                                       yard." In order to supposedly "tidy" that back
                                       yard up, it elected to form alliances with the
                                       circles opposing Islam.
                                           Following     Azerbaijan,   Dagestan,
                                       Chechnya and , another country where ten-
                                       sions have been experienced is Uzbekistan.
                                           Important positions and bodies in the
                                       Uzbek state are known to be occupied by
                                       atheist Zionists and atheist masons. These cir-
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