Karakol; 1st August
1st August -- rest day in Karakol
Almost all towns and many villages have monuments in WW2 in Kazhakstan, Uzbekistan, Tajikistan and Kyrgystan. When studying the period as part of the national curriuculm in the UK as a 16 year old, the impression I got was that the war was very much a European one. Traveling through Central Asia you realise this was very much not the case. The Soviet Union lost about 27 million soldiers fighting the Nazis, many from Central Asia; an utterly incomprehensible figure, involving human tragedy on an unimaginable scale.

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