Long perceived as a buffer zone, post-Soviet Central #Asia received significant amounts of #military equipment, aid, and training from the international community in order to contain the threat of a mass exodus of refugees from #Afghanistan. None of this assistance, however, could have prepared the region for this unprecedented influx of people from its former colonial and imperial center.

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