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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“Without free, self-respecting, and autonomous citizens there can be no free and independent nations. Without internal peace, that is, peace among citizens and between the citizens and the state, there can be no guarantee of external peace.”
—Václav Havel (b. 1936)