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Our historical documentary series on the history of the Cold War continues with the second part of a pair of videos looking at the history of the Turkmen SSR and what factors eventually led to the rise of Turkmenbashi. The Turkmen SSR, pt 1: https://youtu.be/plrMl23VFMA How Khrushchev Fed the Soviet People: https://youtu.be/qIZDa7ZcUhE How Khrushchev Housed Everyone: https://youtu.be/lazVrmC7IVQ Soviet Tourism: https://youtu.be/t9KrH-xG20Q Soviet Passport System: New Serfdom or Reform?: https://youtu.be/Dgr9F3WFsbo Soviet Education System: https://youtu.be/AD_JwbivtMA The Soviet Economy, pt 1: https://youtu.be/2arxTSPhr6g Communist Girl Scouts of America: https://youtu.be/QvgEHc0iyoQ ASALA, Armenia Secret Army: https://youtu.be/DFzIVfTNjH0 Amchitka Island Nuclear Test: https://youtu.be/Z89YnSS5RQA Soviet Criminal Underworld: https://youtu.be/zEJrivfLKGc Project Iceworm: Nukes Under the Ice: https://youtu.be/ePT8gp0LKsk Haiti and the Dominican Republic: https://youtu.be/apgYxvtDFQY Red Army Faction: https://youtu.be/wgYfTQJYCkI Colonial Indochina to 1945: https://youtu.be/uijOG8oYHgo First Indochina War pt. 1 GUERILLA: https://youtu.be/V9wSqx0W8h0 First Indochina War pt. 2 INTERNATIONALIZATION: https://youtu.be/58PAc7zAtSg Alcohol Prohibition in the USSR https://youtu.be/kyPdGderIxk Cocaine and Cartels: https://youtu.be/A9VA51N-Ug4 International Terrorism: https://youtu.be/VqHMjA35aLM Liberation Theology: https://youtu.be/Dfu2I_LTKt4 Iranian Nuclear Program: https://youtu.be/ZrNNeS31lNg The School of the Americas: https://youtu.be/3tYwj-7b_jU America's Secret Nuclear Disaster: https://youtu.be/iXSSCdlTst4 How Nuclear Deterrence Theory developed: https://youtu.be/UHIsdbvsuOY Taiwan Under the Kuomintang Dictatorship: https://youtu.be/nGYzXNpQclo What Happened to the German and Japanese POWs?: https://youtu.be/JLK1xQV9B84 Support us on Patreon: http://www.patreon.com/TheColdWar, Youtube membership https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCCGvq-qmjFmmMD4e-PLQqGg/join ✔ Merch store ► https://teespring.com/stores/thecoldwar ✔ Patreon ► https://www.patreon.com/thecoldwar ✔ Facebook ► https://www.facebook.com/thecoldwartv ✔ Instagram ►http://www.instagram.com/thecoldwartv #ColdWar #ColdWarHistory #History #ModernHistory #USSR #Soviet #SovietUnion #Turkmenistan #Turkmen #Turkmenbashi #TurkmenSSR **SOURCES** Fabio De Leonardis, Nation-Building and Personality Cult in Turkmenistan: The Turkmenbasy Phenomenon (Routledge, 2018). Glenn E. Curtis (ed.), Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, and Uzbekistan country studies (Federal Research Division, Library of Congress, 1996). Adrienne Lynn Edgar, Tribal Nation: The Making of Soviet Turkmenistan (Princeton University Press, 2004). Albert Szymanski, Human Rights in the Soviet Union (Zed Books Ltd., 1984). Sally N. Cummings and Michael Ochs, “Turkmenistan: Saparmurat Niyazov’s inglorious isolation” in Sally N. Cummings (ed.), Power and Change in Central Asia (Routledge, 2002). Jumadurdy Annaorazov, “Turkmenistan during the Second World War,” Journal of Slavic Military Studies, Vol.25 (2012). Riccardo Mario Cucciolla, “The ‘Turkmen Phenomenon.’ The May 1989 Incidents in Ashgabat and Nebit-Dag, and the Liquidation of the Opposition in Soviet Turkmenistan,” Europe-Asia Studies, Vol.77, No.10 (2025). https://www.ebsco.com/research-starters/history/earthquake-devastates-ashgabat-and-kills-100000-people https://repository.umy.ac.id/bitstream/handle/123456789/9052/bab%20ii.pdf?sequence=4&isAllowed=y