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The Western part of China, Xinjiang or Chinese, historically, is called East Turkestan. Mostly populated by Uighurs, Kazakhs and many Turkic peoples and Mongols, it was annexed by China only in the middle of the XVIII century. After a bloody war with the Dzungar khanate, during which the Chinese troops deliberately killed all of the male batyrs, this vast country for a long time, the old memory, was called Dzungaria. Called her also and Kashgaria named in her oldest city, founded BC Tocharians.

During the great Patriotic war in the Soviet army shoulder to shoulder fought the representatives of different nationalities – Russians, Ukrainians, Tatars, Kazakhs... was among the Soviet soldiers and the Chechens. One of them, Khanpasha Nuradilov was posthumously awarded the title Hero of the Soviet Union. Of his exploits are remembered today, 70 years later.

Few people know, but in the early XVIII century Peter the great decided to colonize Africa. Why was this necessary? Why Madagascar did not become ours? We decided to find out.

The collapse of the Soviet Union, as correctly noted by Vladimir Putin, was the greatest geopolitical catastrophe of the twentieth century. While the Belavezha accords, in conditions when the population of the USSR at the referendum voted for the preservation of the country, look a state crime. At the same time, it is not clear why the conspirators had not been arrested.

It would seem that such a question was not supposed to occur. Russia initially viewed the Bolsheviks as a state created by Russian, in which all other Nations and peoples are in a depressed condition. So one of the first documents of Soviet power – the "Declaration of the rights of the peoples of Russia", signed by Lenin and Stalin 2 (15) November 1917, proclaimed the right of all Russian nationalities to political self-determination up to the formation of an independent state. The implication was that the Russian government have already there.[C-BLOCK]