Wreck of the Emirate
Jun 20 1955
•Adventure
1920. Western countries are trying to use the Bukhara khanate — a former protectorate of tsarist Russia — to fight the Soviet regime. Arrived in Tashkent by M. V. Frunze and V. V. Kuibyshev to organize the masses to fight counter-revolutionaries and agents of foreign intelligence services.
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Evgeniy Samoylov
Vladimir Krasnopolskiy
Georgiy Yumatov
Roza Makagonova
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