TASHKENT UZBEKISTAN IN 1982

All too often, I find that the media and texts dealing with the Soviet Union and former Soviet Union focus exclusively on a few topics, such as poverty, human rights, or military conflict. This leaves people with a very biased view of what society may actually look like. The former USSR covers a wide range of cultures, languages, ethnicities and environments.

I have collected a few video clips to broaden the range of coverage of daily life.

THE SILK ROAD CITY - SAMARKAND

Much of Post Soviet Central Asia was off the popular radar during the 1990s until Afghanistan was invaded in 2001. This clip shows some scenes from Samarkand, historically an important location also for practicing Muslims ranking, I believe, fourth in terms of pilgram sites.

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