Gorno-Badakhshan Autonomous Oblast was an Autonomous Oblast in Soviet Tajikistan. Though no longer in the Soviet Union, Gorno-Badakhshan enjoys unique autonomy that other provinces in independent Tajikistan do not.
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“There is a totalitarian regime inside every one of us. We are ruled by a ruthless politburo which sets ours norms and drives us from one five-year plan to another. The autonomous individual who has to justify his existence by his own efforts is in eternal bondage to himself.”
—Eric Hoffer (1902–1983)