Mankurts are unthinking slaves in Chinghiz Aitmatov's novel The Day Lasts More Than a Hundred Years (1980). After the novel was released in the Soviet Union, the word came to refer to people who have lost touch with their ethnic homeland, who have forgotten their kinship.
Mankurts are unthinking slaves in Chinghiz Aitmatov's novel The Day Lasts More Than a Hundred Years (1980). After the novel was released in the Soviet Union, the word came to refer to people who have lost touch with their ethnic homeland, who have forgotten their kinship.
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