no use for money
"We were fine people. We had a horse, three cows and eight or nine sheep, and an orchard on the hillside with pear trees, mulberries and apples. Life was good. We had everything but pomegranates in our village. We had no use for money."
A Tajik man who was forcibly relocated in the 1950's by the Soviet government from the highland Pamir region of Tajikstan to the Vakhsh valley below. The Communists needed thousands of workers for its expansion of cotton plantations throughout Central Asia.
- From the book "Land Beyond the River: The Untold Story of Central Asia", by Monica Whitlock
A Tajik man who was forcibly relocated in the 1950's by the Soviet government from the highland Pamir region of Tajikstan to the Vakhsh valley below. The Communists needed thousands of workers for its expansion of cotton plantations throughout Central Asia.
- From the book "Land Beyond the River: The Untold Story of Central Asia", by Monica Whitlock
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