tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34598853.post8529963640823699098..comments2023-12-30T01:47:45.604-08:00Comments on servethepeople: Stalin and the “slaughter” of the horses of GeorgiaUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34598853.post-55436911422218493982020-11-16T23:41:21.172-08:002020-11-16T23:41:21.172-08:00Zoe, thanks for drawing my attention to the ahalte...Zoe, thanks for drawing my attention to the ahalteke website. This appears to be the paragraph you refer to, but I can't see a reference to the slaughter of horses in huge numbers under the communists. There is a reference to the government (not Stalin personally) allegedly wanting the horses slaughtered for food, but if they were all then released into the desert, why were there still horses in a stud that took part in the great ride to Moscow? I'm trying to keep an open mind, but I need evidence. Here's what I think is the paragraph, Maybe there's something else on the site I haven't found:<br /><br />"Prior to the Russian occupation of 1917, nearly every Turkmen family<br />owned at least one or two horses. With Bolshevism however, came an<br />end to private ownership and the horses were placed in state-owned stud<br />farms. Rather than surrender their beloved horses to such a fate many<br />tribesmen fled with them to Persia and Afghanistan. When it was then<br />decreed that the horses in the stud farms were to be slaughtered for food,<br />breeders released them into the desert, their natural habitat, thereby<br />preventing what may have resulted in the annihilation of the akhalteke<br />breed within the borders of Turkmenistan. In 1935, fifteen akhaltekes<br />were ridden 3000 kilometers, from Ashgabat to Moscow, in eighty-four<br />days, to demonstrate to Joseph Stalin their formidable strength in the<br />hopes that he would grant his permission for their continued breeding. The campaign was a success."<br />Mikehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01878524757860159914noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34598853.post-60081532656641941092019-09-23T07:27:19.336-07:002019-09-23T07:27:19.336-07:00I cant blame stalin specifically but it is written...I cant blame stalin specifically but it is written in the akhalteke.net that those famous horses were slaughered in huge numbers thoroughout the time of communist regime.<br />http://www.ahalteke.net/zoehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09435757272203692325noreply@blogger.com