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Apparently this "ancient custom" regained traction in rural areas once the Russians were out of their land, so, certainly, even the Bolsheviks of all folk were the ones maintaining civility there.The USSR occupation was actually a step up for these people
Ala kachuu - Wikipedia (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ala_kachuu)
>The Russian Empire and later USSR made the ancient practice of the nomads illegal, and so with the fall of the Soviet Union and the subsequent independence of the Central Asian nations, many have revived old customs as a way of asserting cultural identity.