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“In Lenin's view, such changes were positive: nations, as products of capitalist economic relations, fitted into classic Marxist stage theory of development. Even Stalin, who differed on the implications for Soviet policy, agreed that nations were an inescapable phase through which all humans communities must pass. Ultimately, they (like, capitalism) would be superseded, but for precapitalist societies national development and nationalist movements were treated as progressive. Lenin drew a further distinction between great-power nationalism, which oppressed others, and small-power nationalism, which formed in response o it. In places - such as Russia - that had been responsible for national and colonial oppression of others, nationalism was to be combated without mercy and torn out by the roots. Among groups that had been victims of national or colonial oppression, by contrast-such as in the tsarist imperial periphery, where Russian power had created deep economic, political, and social resentment-the Leninist approach was to build socialism while encouraging indigenous development and national differentiation.”
― Douglas Northrop, Veiled Empire: Gender and Power in Stalinist Central Asia

“Supposedly troubled that women would no longer be treated as property, these man saw the hujum as another kind of expropriation, much like the land and water redistribution. One was quoted as saying that unveiling was merely an extension of Soviet land reform, since it aimed to seize the second, third, and fourth wives of bois and transfer them to the poor landless peasants who had to hire themselves out as field hands. (This was a common view, as many Uzbeks also saw the hujum as transferring women from male control to that of the state.)”
― Douglas Northrop, Veiled Empire: Gender and Power in Stalinist Central Asia

“And as if blowing it up, flooding it, and keeping it behind the klyon wasn't enough, State Security special forces patrolled the area until 1989. Some locals say there was an additional 'live fence' of thousands of vipers specially bred for this purpose by Uzbeks along the southern Black Sea, under something called decree number 56. Why Uzbeks? Why vipers? Did decree 56 read: 'Let us fulfil the five-year snake plan in one year'?”
― Kapka Kassabova, Border: A Journey to the Edge of Europe

“Like the purest feelings that lose their true power when put into words, try to describe beauty beyond measure and you’ll become a butcher.”
― Carol Vorvain, OMSARUZ: Humorous tales from Oman, Saudi Arabia and Uzbekistan

“Secrets are scary. They make us assume the worst when the truth could be quite plain and inoffensive.”
― Carol Vorvain, OMSARUZ: Humorous tales from Oman, Saudi Arabia and Uzbekistan

“Ad ogni passo e ogni sguardo, si rimane affascinati, un poâ€� come un bambino quando scopre cose nuove e rimane sbalordito.â€�

Viaggio itinerante di 7 giorni nella terra di Tamerlano, percorrendo parte della Via della Seta, alla scoperta di un Paese che ha superato di molto le mie aspettative.
Itinerario iniziato a Khiva e terminato nella capitale Tashkent, ammirando posti straordinari, tra moschee, madrase, alcuni musei e laboratori artigianali, ma anche scoperto quanto sia fantastica ed ospitale la popolazione uzbeka.

Questo libro è stato pensato come una specie di “guida-raccontoâ€�, dove vengono raccolte non solo le mie esperienze di viaggio (per la prima volta in gruppo), ma anche cenni storici, leggende, alcune curiosità e più 100 immagini, oltre ad una sezione dedicata per dimostrare la bellezza di questo fantastico Paese.”
― Simone M. Albore, Rahmat Uzbekistan!: Tour di 7 giorni nella terra di Tamerlano, lungo la Via della seta.

“These are all winter melons. This one is called "old lady melon." It is very sweet, very soft,' Karim said, running his hand over the melon's tight folds.
Round as a football, heavy and full, its skin was ribbed like thick corduroy, its wrinkly stalk curved as a coat hook. Taking his knife, Karim carved a sickle moon from the seaweed-green melon, exposing, almost indecently, the melon's flesh, creamy as magnolia. In the middle, a tightly packed jelly-ball of seeds-- unlike watermelons, which have their seeds scattered throughout-- managed to hold its form despite the cut. From this strange melon came a uniquely robust fruitiness, mixing overripe pear with Bourbon vanilla. He held up the melon proudly, an example of the fruit in its prime, the cross-section of its seed house, glistening in the sunshine. In Uzbekistan it is the trader who decides when a melon is ready. There are no stickers ordering the buyer to 'ripen at home'.
He handed me the slithery wedge and I tried to unpick the flavors as grievous wasps landed drunkenly on the scattered rinds. First, sherbet. Then a little honey mixed with almond extract and, finally, pineapple and the smoothness of rum.”
― Caroline Eden, Cold Kitchen: A Year of Culinary Travels