Hayit left Namangan in December 1939 and was stationed in Poland as a squadron tank commander.
[1][2] From the 1950s until his death Hayit wrote dozens of articles and 15 acclaimed books in German, English, and Turkish on the history of Turkestan (the now independent republics of Turkmenistan, Kyrgyzstan, Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan and the Chinese province of Xinjiang).
[2] Hayit was a strong advocate for the independence and unification of the Soviet and Chinese-controlled parts of Central Asia.
[1] Even in independent Uzbekistan discussing it was controversial, and Hayit was vilified by president Islam Karimov for being a traitor to his motherland.
[citation needed] In other parts of the world his work was appreciated because of the huge political and historical relevance of his theses.