was transferred into the hands of the state. Legacy Today the cooperative's residential buildings on Intergel'po Street (former site of the cooperative) are in a desolate state and are inhabited mostly by marginalized segments of society (such as e.g. internal working migrants from Southern Kyrgyzstan): "In the accounts of most residents, the builders of the districts where either unknown, or misrepresented as “Czech prisoners of war” or “Czech war refugees,” who had ended up in Central Asia in the aftermath of World War II. Today, almost a hundred years later, little reminds today’s residents of the achievements of the cooperative. Only Nazdar, a small Czechoslovak association, tries to preserve its historical heritage with financially limited funds."In 2008, Czech National Television released the documentary Interhelpo. Historie jedné iluze (“Interhelpo – The History of an Illusion”) which portrays the historical experience of the cooperative largely in negative terms, highlighting human losses and the ultimate failure of the cooperative. See also Neutral Moresnet External links Site dedicated to Interhelpo Multimedia tour through the history of Interhelpo (2019)/ STORIA: Interhelpo, la cooperativa esperantista cecoslovacca nel Kirghizistan sovietico (Interhelpo, the Czechoslovakian Esperanto cooperative in Soviet Kyrgyzstan) Article by Martina Napolitano . The ruins of socialism in Bishkek: industrial cooperative Interhelpo by Nelly Dzhamanbaeva, Nov 19, 2019. Interhelpo and the making of industrial Bishkek – walking tour a blog article (rich of photos) by Lisa Germany, July 6, 2019. References Kirghiz Soviet Socialist Republic Esperanto history Czechoslovakia–Soviet Union relations Cooperatives in the Soviet Union Esperanto in Slovakia