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SINKIANG: Second East Turkistan Republic, enameled AR medal, 1948, XF

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SINKIANG: Second East Turkistan Republic, enameled AR medal, 1948, XF
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SINKIANG: Second East Turkistan Republic, enameled AR medal, 1948, 39mm, Award for Bravery, 2nd class, with original loop and ribbon with pinback, star and crescent in blue field, bahadirlik üchün ("for courage") in Uyghur script below, all within outer border with yellow rays // punched award number "1138" and date, some enamel loss, the only example of this date we have ever encountered, XF, RRR. The Second East Turkistan Republic (1944-1949) was a Soviet-aligned separatist state based in Ghulja (Yining) in northern Xinjiang. It declared independence on November 12, 1944, after the outbreak of rebellion in the districts of Ili, Tarbagatay (Tacheng), and Altay. Though initially supported by the Soviet Union, the Republic lost its sponsor in 1945 and entered into a coalition government with the Kuomintang government, which controlled the rest of Xinjiang. This uneasy coalition lasted a little over a year and collapsed in 1947. In 1949, following the defection of the KMT provincial government to the Chinese Communist Party, the top leaders of the Republic travelled to Alma-Ata (Almaty), where they were instructed by Soviet officials to cooperate with the CCP on the integration of the three districts into the rest of Xinjiang. They then set off for Beijing for negotiations, but their plane crashed near Lake Baikal on August 27, killing all onboard. The remaining leadership in Ghulja soon agreed to the integration plans, and the three districts officially became the Ili Kazakh Autonomous Region in 1953. According to one source, all awards of this republic were made by Agzam Mirrakhimov, an ethnic Kyrgyz hereditary jeweler born in Ghulja in 1922.