During this country’s Hujum campaign, body-length robes called paranjas were banned and women were forced to unveil. This country’s arrest and execution of intellectuals like Choʻlpon marked the end of its reformist Jadid movement. In the 1930s, this country’s official ethnogenesis narratives canonized national heroes such as Alisher Nava’i and Manas. This country’s fishing industry in towns like Moynaq was destroyed due to excessive cotton cultivation. Newcomers outnumbered the original population in a nomadic region of this country after mass resettlement during its Virgin Lands campaign. This country’s irrigation projects, like the Karakum Canal, diverted enough water to shrink the nearby Aral Sea. For 10 points, name this country from which Uzbekistan, Kyrgyzstan, and Kazakhstan seceded in 1991. ■END■
ANSWER: Soviet Union [or USSR; or Union of Soviet Socialist Republics; prompt on Russia; prompt on Uzbek Soviet Socialist Republic or Uzbekistan until “Uzbekistan” is read; prompt on Kirghiz Soviet Socialist Republic or Kirghizia or Kyrgyzstan until “Kyrgyzstan” is read; prompt on Kazakh Soviet Socialist Republic or Kazakhstan until “Kazakhstan” is read; prompt on Turkmen Soviet Socialist Republic or Turkmenia or Turkmenistan]
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