Ibrahim Bek

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Ibrahim Bek was the leader of an anti-Soviet group know as the Basmachi. Bek was a member of the Lakai tribe in Eastern Bukhara and led an organized resistance against the Soviet military in the 1920s. Bek was eventually forced to flee south into Afghanistan, from where he led several cross-border raids back into the newly organized republic of Tajikistan. Bek was captured and later executed by Soviet authorities in the 1930s.