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history: add Kyrgyzstan 1934 Soviet-ban article from decree text and Academy history
27 October 1934 union-wide sowing ban (quotas, permits, criminal liability, confiscation, in force 1935); Kyrgyz state cultivation in the 1950s-60s, Usobaliev's push from 1962, and the 3 June 1964 Chuy decision. Entries cross-checked, no changes needed.
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@@ -0,0 +1,58 @@ +# Research pass: Kyrgyzstan 1934 Soviet-ban article + +Research checked on 26 October 2026. The union-wide 1934 sowing ban gains +a properly sourced article built from the decree text and a Kyrgyz +Interior Ministry Academy history, both read in full. No entry, score, +profile or timeline changes — the Kyrgyz, Uzbek and Tajik 1934 entries +were checked against the fresh reads and needed no correction. + +## What was verified (all sources actually read) + +### USSR decree of 27 October 1934 (Istmat, Russian original read in full) + +- Collected Laws of the USSR, No. 56, art. 422 (Moscow 1948 collection): + union-wide ban on sowing opium poppy and Indian hemp except harvests + exclusively for USSR medical/scientific needs; annual district quotas by + the agriculture commissariat (by 15 August, with foreign-trade and + republic-health agreement); permits via republic land organs; criminal + liability for unlicensed sowing with mandatory confiscation; republic + CECs to amend criminal codes; in force from 1935; repeals the 1927 + poppy decree; Kalinin and Molotov. +- New `articles/kyrgyzstan-soviet-ban-1934.md` (368 words, 4 sections, + both sources cited; links to the 1965 Chuy entry, the Uzbek 1934 entry + and /country/kg/). + +### Kyrgyz Academy of the Ministry of Internal Affairs journal, 2024 +(Malabaev et al., printed pp. 88–90, read in full) + +- 1950s–60s state hemp/poppy cultivation; autumn influx of addicts and + speculators (310 kg hashish in three years per Usobaliev's memoirs); + Frunze tobacco-factory lacing; hashish smoking among school youth; + rising hashish-intoxication crime; Usobaliev pressing Moscow from 1962; + chemical-industry substitute by early 1964; 3 June 1964 USSR decree + banning southern Chuy hemp from 1965, ordering non-narcotic varieties, + banning household-plot hemp nationwide, liquidating wild hemp; + conversion of the Chuy station and abolition of the seed station. +- Entry cross-check: every dated claim in `kyrgyzstan-soviet-ban-1934` + (medical exception, criminal liability, confiscation, code amendments, + October 1934 signature, 1965 Chuy decision) matches the fresh reads; + locator details confirmed. No edit made. + +Claim boundaries: Russian legal terms rendered in plain English +equivalents (sowing, confiscation, criminal liability); the 310 kg figure +is the memoir's, cited as such; no claims about post-Soviet enforcement. + +## Dead ends recorded, not forced + +- The 1927 repealed poppy decree was not pursued (background only). +- No article attempted for the Baltics 1940 imposition: the mechanism and + timing of Soviet drug law's application there remain unconfirmed, as the + entries honestly state. + +## Verification and files + +- `npm run build`, `npm run history:test`, `npm run answers:test` all green; + rendered `/history/kyrgyzstan-soviet-ban-1934/` citation marks checked. +- Commit limited to own work: the new article plus this note (no + changes.yaml edits). Foreign staged/worktree files excluded and + preserved.