1975 Afghanistan. Street Life on Kodak Slides. Part 1

[@UshankaShow]

Bill's World Travels Playlist: kzbin.info/aero/PLNq3y0OU1_BZs1ZTNVGXufYGahu5jSYtx

[@peterbedford2610]

The creativity and ingenuity of the saying ' necessity is the mother of invention' really comes through in countries with limited resources.

[@JTA1961]

That bicycle at 3:25 was the Toyota Landcruiser of bicycles. Never seen a seat like that.

[@UshankaShow]

Too cool for school )) They definitely loved their bikes ))

[@FatGuyinaLittleWoods]

Fantastic quality

[@ideno1985]

These photos are really amazing! That uncle really had some great adventures! I am happy that all was captured on actual film slides.

[@UshankaShow]

We're still trying to figure out how he could afford that on his movie operator salary ))

[@seiph80]

Hey Sergei, after some digging, at 1:30 and at 6:08 I was able to identify the car as a 1960 Buick Lesabre. Hope that helps, love your channel!

[@UshankaShow]

That's the one, thanks!

[@navelriver]

The vivid colour of those images grabs you by the collar and gives a shake!

[@russellfreestone8580]

Well done, Uncle Bill. It is a very different place in time. Thank you for sharing.

[@HankScorpio64]

This was during the rule of Mohammad Daoud Khan a couple years after the King was overthrown these slides have insane historical value. A Museum or University would that studies central Asia would love a collection like this.

[@FlintIronstag23]

Yes, Uncle Bill managed to visit the country in that brief period between the 1973 Coup and the 1978 Saur Revolution.

[@Vtarngpb]

Definitely hasn’t changed much 🥲

[@OssianEMills]

I was there in 2014. Kind of looks the same. Except the people seemed happier in 1975.

[@georgeboatright6635]

at about 1:36 i think that was a buick from the sixties.

[@AnnaRytell]

Very nice pictures. It's amazing that they didn't fade over the years.

[@Mattzcataz]

Fantastic video! I love the music in the background, it really makes it come alive.

[@icascone]

I kind of surprised how it is not too different from now lol (looks wise)... Mainly because when we use search engine search for 1975 Afganistan you get pictures of young women at university of Kabul wearing same clothes that westerners wore in 1970's...

[@UshankaShow]

The same with Iran. Modern-looking ladies were only in the large cities. The country was always ultraconservative

[@icascone]

@@UshankaShow Oh of course... Thanks! :)

[@schurlbirkenbach1995]

​​@@UshankaShowI traveled in Afghanistan 1976 and 1978. I never saw women dressed in a Western way. Iran was much more modern. If you crossed the border from Afghanistan to Iran, you had the impression of leaving Asia and entering Europe.

[@UshankaShow]

@@schurlbirkenbach1995 I believe you. Uncle Bill visited Kabul as well, we will see what he saw there

[@vincentchabot919]

I was there during autumn 1975 and winter 76 ; I'm from Québec.

[@andershansson2245]

Dyadya Bill's stuff is as amazing as always! There's a typo in the headline though, should be Afghanistan, no? Btw, if Bill had used different film stock, it could've been Agfa-nistan...

[@Dragon88Lord]

I love it. Its like seeing smiling ghosts from a pre-internet past.

[@dangregorian7751]

+1 for Bogdan ❤

[@pacifist9805]

It has potential to be a good tourist destination after dust settles. It's not evident by looking these pictures but if you watch recent videos from Liza Chaika and Dany Dev, it comes more clear. Nature is nothing like I have seen from tv. Breathtaking sceneries. Liza is a Ukrainian girl who met a German guy, whose mother is Ukrainian. She is trying to make a living to be a youtuber, so if someone wants to help, it's easy just by watching her videos.

[@peacefulamerican4994]

Where did she go? I subbed years ago.

[@pacifist9805]

@@peacefulamerican4994 After recent thrilling Afganistan trip probably to Thailand.

[@pacifist9805]

After the Afganistan thriller they probably went to Thailand.

[@too_much_dew]

Before the war it was in fact a tourist destination. It was a part of "Hippie trail"

[@jonthinks6238]

Two thoughts, were are the poppy dealers? That most of these men and boys died fighting soviet invasion for ten years.

[@EdMcF1]

Brezhnev in 1978: What this place needs is a large dollop of brotherly Socialist love... (Followed by war, civil war, Taliban, US invasion, Taliban...).

[@AtomicCheesegod]

I was there in 2012-13. Place looks exactly the same. It’s has had zero social growth. In fact it’s had allot of regression

[@too_much_dew]

I would like to watch how your country would fare after half a century of non stop wars. Before soviets came there was albeit a very slow but still a progress for women's rights, you can read up on it on wikipedia. Afghanistan was even a part of "hippie trail" before war. Just to illustrate: 1964 - women get the right to vote in Afghanistan 1971 - women get the right to vote in Switzerland I'm not saying that women had better lives in Afghanistan but there was good progress going on. Sadly the war destroyed everything

[@AtomicCheesegod]

@ the rural areas of Afghanistan (which is most of it) have the same amount of infrastructure now than they did in pre-soviet times. Which isn’t allot. Kandahar, International Airport Is in disrepair, and it was built by the United States in the 1960s. Without international help they would never have one.

[@lisadavis9356]

Thank you Uncle Bill! Amazing… But where are the women? I spotted maybe 1 or 2 on the streets in the whole series

[@UshankaShow]

There will be some in the next part. Not many though

[@lisadavis9356]

Yes, I did see few. Maybe less than 5. It is startling to see that there are really no women on the urban streets compared to the parts of the world that I have experienced. The second video shows the nomadic women taking part in every day lives. Great work Sergi! Lisa

[@theotherohlourdespadua1131]

Ah finally, some pre-Taliban Afghanistan photos that aren't just shots of Kabul. People frequently romanticize that pre-Taliban Afghanistan is a bastion of liberalism and western-style democracy and not an actual backwater with a massive urban-rural socio-cultural gap in between...

[@peacefulamerican4994]

one minute past the stone age.

[@musicfruits2920]

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[@jamesstuart3346]

National Geographic quality?? Appreciate Uncle Bill's efforts, but these are mediocre tourist happy snaps

[@jamesreagan2927]

No women, I noticed.

[@mickimicki]

Sorry to say I stopped watching about halfway in, because I got tired of seeing nothing but men, men, men. Were there no women visible in the streets in the "good old days"? Or maybe Uncle Bill was just very polite and didn't take pictures of strange women. Yeah, that's probably it.