Dwindling Memories of WW2 in Tajikistan
As Tajiks marked Victory Day on May 9, IWPR interviewed some of the few remaining veterans of the 1941-45 war.
Dwindling Memories of WW2 in Tajikistan
As Tajiks marked Victory Day on May 9, IWPR interviewed some of the few remaining veterans of the 1941-45 war.
Of the 200,000 Soviet citizens of Tajikistan who took part in the Second World War, few are still left alive. There are just 260 in the capital Dushanbe.
IWPR reporter Zokirjon Dustmurodov went to part of Shaartuz district in the south, where he found just two ex-soldiers left, who recalled the horrors of the war.
The audio programme, in Russian and Tajik, went out on national radio stations in Tajikistan, as part of IWPR project work funded by the Norwegian Ministry of Foreign Affairs.
