TSSR

Tajik SSR 1929-1991, capital Dushanbe. Mountainous Central Asian republic, one of 15 SSRs, formed from Uzbek SSR. Cotton, aluminum smelter at Tursunzade, Pamir Mountains Roof of World. Pop 5.11M in 1989, Tajik Persian Sunni Muslims. Soviet collectivization, anti-Islamic policies, poorest SSR dependent on Moscow subsidies. Voted preserve USSR 1991. After collapse became Tajikistan, civil war 1992-97. Flag red with white-green stripes, now independent Tajikistan free today. Poor and mountainous.