Bukhara, Central Asia. The city’s residents see planes flying overhead for the first time. They are Red Army planes coming from nearby Kagan, already conquered by the Bolsheviks. The city of Bukhara is bombed and then conquered by the Bolshevik troops of the great General Mikhail Frunze, with the help of locals led by Faisullah Khojayev. Khojayev, the son of a very wealthy banker, gives everything to the Communist Party. For nothing. In 1927, he will be killed on Stalin’s orders during the purges.
