further in Uzbekistan. So, and this kind of recording, these kind of memories for posterity, I think that was important in Dark Shadows, for me anyway, to try and record some of these memories before, you know, these people pass away, they're very old. But I also, getting back to the point of your question, why is this important? Why is this interesting? Well, because all of these things reverberate in Kazakhstan today is a complex society. It's, you know, complex demographically because it has lots of minorities. In fact, it was the only former Soviet country when the Soviet Union collapsed, where the people of the country were in the minority in their own country. So nowadays, Kazakhs make up 70% of the population, but back in 1991, they only made up 40%. So that's, you know, lots of different kinds of people you encounter, different kinds of ethnicities when you travel around Kazakhstan. Let me ask you this. How does this history inform the core public concerns and political (16/39)
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