History of the Jews in Central Asia and varied history. Jews first arrived in the eastern part of the Emirate of Bukhara, in what is today Tajikistan, in the 2nd century BC. After the Communists came to power they organized the country into republics, including Tajikistan, which was first formed as an autonomous republic within Uzbekistan in 1924, and in 1929 became a full-fledged republic. In an effort to develop Tajikistan, Soviet authorities encouraged migration, including thousands of Jews, from neighboring Uzbekistan. Most Jews settled in Dushanbe, the capital of Tajikistan, where they opened the Dushanbe synagogue. During World War II, a second wave of Ashkenazic Jews
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