Only in your wet dreams maybe.
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Stalin replaced God for the baboon masses in the USSR once upon a time. Entire cities, factories, car brands were named after Father Stalin.
Soviet historiography gifted Scythians for Thou Father Stalin. Just to appear kind.
The same Stalinist school to this day still pretends Viking Rus' clan wasn't Viking (Germanic) but Balto-Slav!
It's funny how the civilized world kept on that Stalinist history revisionism and falsifications. They still insist all the pastoralist nomads between South Siberia and Crimea were all 'Iranic' ... In fact that's just crazy.
Lol, I don’t care about Scythians being IE or anything being IE in general, what matters to me is facts and the fact is that the actual Scythians were IE although some eastern ones would’ve had some Turkic influences. And there are Saka inscriptions which confirm it as being Iranic
Khotan Empire was East Iranian. Stretching from Transoxiana up until modern Tarim basin which now lies in west China.
They were Buddhist agriculturalists.
They had villages, they were settled, they were farming. They weren't nomads.
They are proto-Tajiks and proto-Sogdians.
That has nothing to do with the nomads of the steppes.
Their script was Aramaic which was a Semitic alphabet. Turkic runes was self-developed (Thomsen said Turks might some cheating on Chinese but runic and letter style making unique).