Dushanbe The Soviets transformed the area into a centre for cotton and silk production, and tens of thousands of people relocated to the city. The population also increased with thousands of Tajiks migrating to Tajikistan following the transfer of Bukhara and Samarkand to the Uzbek SSR as part of national delimitation in Central Asia. On 10 November 1961, Stalinabad was renamed Dushanbe, the name it retains to this day. Severe rioting occurred in February 1990, after it was rumored that the Soviet government planned to relocate tens of thousands of Armenian refugees to Tajikistan. The Dushanbe riots were primarily fueled by
Anthem of the Lithuanian Soviet Socialist Republic Constitution of the Lithuanian SSR (this is the version presented below). The Soviet era anthem for the Lithuanian SSR is presented below: Anthem of the Lithuanian Soviet Socialist Republic The State Anthem of the Lithuanian SSR () was the anthem of the Lithuanian Soviet Socialist Republic under the Soviet Union. During the Soviet occupation of Lithuania, this anthem was imposed by the Lithuanian SSR government in 1950, substituted for the "Tautiška giesmė", which was used briefly as a national anthem of Lithuania in 1944 until 1950. In 1988, the official anthem of the Republic of Lithuania (Tautiška giesmė) was once