USSR, mountains of Tajikistan. Enver Pasha, Muslim leader of the Basmachi (a sort of clandestine mujahideen organization), is hunted down and killed by the men Lenin had sent after him. With him, the Pan-Turkic vision of a nation encompassing the peoples of Turkic origin from Chinese Xinjiang through Soviet Central Asia to Azerbaijan on the Caspian Sea was silenced for nearly a century.
