Aider Alimov: “Uzbeks were told that we have horns”.

That day – May 18, 1944 – Aidar Alimov remembered well. At five in the morning, the soldiers kicked open the door and gave the family five minutes to pack. Aydar Bey’s mother, distraught, with five children in her arms, hardly had time to take anything with her. Already on the way into exile, little Aydar had to learn what hunger and death were. In Angren, where the Alimov family eventually ended up, from a young age he had to take up any kind of work in order to survive.