Central Asian Knives

[ariel]

Originally Posted by Ian

Ariel:

Is there any record of where these seized edged weapons went and what their fate was? Do you think they were salvaged as scrap steel and perhaps for some quality materials in the hilts and scabbards?

Ian

Destroyed, mostly. By the Russians in their part of Central Asia after the Civil War, by the Chinese after their occupation of Kashgar and, especially, during the Mao times...


When in 1944 Soviets forcibly moved the Chechens and the Daghestanis to Siberia, all their weapons were also confiscated. Some went to museums, more were appropriated by the Party bonzas, most were destroyed.

Unarmed society that, on top of it, is deprived of its memories of martial glory, is an emasculated society.