Instructions: In this task, we ask you to elaborate the sentence without changing its general meaning. You can do so by explaining further the input sentence, using more precise wording, adding qualifiers and auxiliary information etc.
Input: As with the other Soviet republics , Turkmenia followed the Marxist – Leninist ideology .
Output:
As with the other Soviet republics , Turkmenistan had followed the Marxist – Leninist ideology governed by the republic 's sole party , Communist Party of Turkmenistan , a republican branch of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union .