Revisting Maslow

Maslow's Theory was the introduction to Management studies for me. It was taught as the basic concept of my choicest subjects clubbed as 'marketing'. As the days have passed and I have taken a liking to reading about some aspects of strifes in Central Asian region, I have found a reason to revisit 'maslow's hierarchy of Needs'.
Central Asian region has been a part of the 'Great Game' for centuries now. Initially, a part of the silk route, it has been famous for its battle hardened fighters, horses, the rugged and inhospitable terrains and the fertile Fergana Valley which has been teh cradle of civilastaions. After the WW2, when Stalin redrew the map of Central Asia dividing the region into Kazakhstan, Kyrgystan, Turkmenistan, Tajikistan adn Uzbekistan, the people perhaps sensed what laid in store for them. The next decades saw the populations dwindle by millions owing to tortures and mass imigrations. Banning the practice of Islam by USSR, there resulted in an undercurrent flow of the staunch religious sentiments in a region known for its Sufism and secular credentials. Once independent after the prestroika and eventual brakup of in Russia in 1991, the repression by the new dictators only increased. The economic crises crippled the economies and inflation soared to more than a thousand in some of these nations. Religious extremism grew as the religion continued to be suppressed and people became poorer. This phenomena has only continued with terrrorist organisations like IMU, Taliban, HT etc coming into existence.
Maslow states at the base of the pyramid exists the physiological needs- breathing, food, water, sleep, sex, homeostasis and excretion. The people in the region where deprived of some of the basic needs like food and peaceful sleep for the way the economy suffered. deficiency of such basic need obviously led them to revolt. But this was compounded with the lack of basic religious freedom. This need to teh people of the region was not very different from the basic physiological needs. For them their normal life was tied to their basic religious and traditional rights which were being crushed. This discontent didn't only exemplify the state but also made people lay their lives for it. Did Maslow miss a point here? Did his research on exemplary people such as Alber Enistein, Jane Addams, Eleanor and Frederick Douglass and healthiest 1% of the college student population failed to rake in the sensitivities of the basic fundamental rights? Right to freedom is perhaps the way a man survives. With the basic freedom, he can chose when to sleep, what to eat and drink, where to move to. Freedom is the fundamental concept for existence of the human being. For the sake of this freedom, millions have bled and died, literature has been written and our heroes have existed. Perhaps, Maslow's theory needs to be revised with 'Freedom' at its base.