@@fariborzhaftar8111 well it *was* a peaceful time for afghanistan, before the USSR tried to invade and before the terrorist groups shown today. Afghanistan then was undergoing some development until the USSR and the USA destroyed its people
Ah the pure village life. Wished they also had a movie like this of the Capital of Afghanistan, Kabul. Kabul was such a modern and progressive place at that time
This is Kabul city. Wake up Laila jan. I am the little kid in the middle of the three young teenage boys, at least one of my pictures at home looks like it. I know a bearded westerner took our pictures. Again, this is the heart of kabul in 1959 when I was about 11 years old. Salis Omar PhD.
This is a second reply to Laila Samadi: First, this is the very heart of Kabul city. It is close to Chaman Hozoory in center of Kabul. Of the three boys, the kid in the center now has two PhDs (Doctorate Degree), speaks six languages (English, French, Arabic, Urdu, Farsi, and of course his mother tongue Pakhtu), lives in the Capital of Canada, Ottawa city, owns a house valued at over one million dollars, has a Mercedese and a Wrangler each worth about eighty thousand dollars and, works for the government of Canada as a senior officer. How do I know, you ask? I know because that boy is me. Yes, I am that eleven years old boy in the middle with a smile on his face. Of course that smile has long gone!!! Salis Omar
Back in the 1970's and early 1980's, Afghanistan was apparently like the modern day Dubai. My client told me....an Indian lady born in Afghanistan. Her parents apparently moved from India to Afghanistan when the country was doing well, they were some kind of professionals. From what I understand Afghanistan is a rich country in terms of the land and its resources. But, it has been wasted and destroyed because of the hateful religion that has consumed their minds from the small to big amongst them.
@@fir8550 Ignorant beliefs such as yours consume and constrict minds. Islam for the first time in human history anywhere and any religion or creed recognized woman as a human being. Islam (and not the Greeks) introduced the concept of democracy to the human race. Islam conceived and perfected the market economy (capitalism). Islam (Omar ibn al-Khitab) introduced the welfare state to the world. Islam intriduced 90% of all sciences. Ever wondered where the words algebra, chemistry, medical alcohol and hundreds of other scietific words come from? You guessed it. They are all arabic words. In the words of world-famous rennaisance thinker "if islam had not come to Europe, westerners would still have been living like wild beasts". Get educated Salis Omar PhD, Afghanistan
This is Countryside. Kabul is so beautiful and peaceful in the 50s more than this days. But I believe Afghanistan will back peaceful country and modern ..
It won't. It is occupied and is being exploited by foreign countries and, unfortunately, India is one of those powers who've been exploiting Afghanistan and its people for the past decade. It is doomed.
look carefully the video looks like slow motion and if we pay attention the video is not that much clear HD, it has been converted from black and white to a colorful video and peoples around and lots of things shows it might be from 1950's
له عراق څخه 🇮🇶 زه له افغانستان سره مینه لرم 🇦🇫 از عراق 🇮🇶 من افغانستان را دوست دارم 🇦🇫 مِنَ العِـراق 🇮🇶 أنـا أُحِـب أَفغـانسـتـان 🇦🇫 From Iraq 🇮🇶 I love Afghanstan 🇦🇫
@@WordsofHonesty Yes, I’m Iraqi 🇮🇶 I love Afghans 🇦🇫 & their languages like Pashtu & Deri, I know easy words for basic conversation from each, because I need sometimes to do a search in your native languages to know more about the beautiful Afghan culture which is diverse & interesting just like a fruit basket that contains everything ❤️🌹 I always wish the love & peace for Afghanistan, the rich country that contains a variety of geography & topography 🌸🌹
@@h.h.entertainer3978 Wow amazing! It is incredible that you've written those phrases in the Afghan languages so correctly especially in Pashto which is my language. Your Pashto is much better than my Arabic which I'm trying to improve by listening to Arabic news channels. You Iraqis are amazing people. Iraqis and Afghans have so many things in common. Your country is the cradle of civilization. أحب العراق مهد الحضارة والحرية ❤️
@@WordsofHonesty Deera Manena my friend.. Yes , there are a lot of ways to learn Arabic but the problem is that Arabic has so many accents that have big differences in between & all are different from the classic or Modern Standard Arabic.. But in general everything will be easy if you have a good vocabulary background & good knowledge in basic grammar of how to make a sentence… News & conférence all are in standard Arabic, but most of the songs are in local dialects.. ګرانو افغانانو ته زما سلامونه، موږ تاسو ټولو سره مینه لرو ❤️🌹🌸
@@h.h.entertainer3978 Well, that is the issue with many languages. Pashto also has many dialects and accents that are different from the standard version but not to the extent Arabic is. The reason might be because Arabic has a far bigger variety of dialects compared to many languages as it stretches over a large area and has speakers in hundreds of millions. In my opinion, Modern Standard Arabic is the gateway to learning the language. Standard Arabic has its unique characteristics. You can express ideas in this language in a more eloquent, articulate and concise manner. There is a reason why Allah sent Quran in Arabic. Can I ask which city of Iraq you come from?
Not similar to the "medievil" societies in Europe. People in Afghanistan had emotional intelligence which the civilizations in the West still lack. This is also the very reason the West has been waging war at the East. The West lacks humanity and doesn't respect life.
I'm trying to make and visualize an animated Indiana Jones movie set in 1941 where he goes to Kabul, but I can't for the life of me find some good footage or decent visuals of what the nation look at the 40's, so as of now, this is the best I have available to me. Useful because I have this annoying part of my head when I keep on thinking he's just in Cairo or the streets of Algiers again when I still know Afghanistan is a very different nation in terms of looks from the rest of them. Does anybody here know what presence the Nazis had in Afghanistan? I heard there were just some Nazi officials that only acted as propagandists and promoters of the regime but the army wasn't in the nation at all. Is there anything drastically different in this footage from what the nation would have looked like in the 40's?
@pacman5698 "Does anybody here know what presence the Nazis had in Afghanistan? I heard there were just some Nazi officials that only acted as propagandists and promoters of the regime" Yes, I once read in a German 1950's book about Afghanistan ("Wenn es 12 schlägt in Kabul" ["When it strikes 12 in Kabul" - alluding to the "Top-e Shast" salute cannon on Koh-e Sher Darvaza] by Walter Krause) about an Afghan SS major named Ata Ullah...
هر چیز به حقیقت اول اش برمیگردد، مطمئن هستم... من یک خراسانی هستم و هم یک آریایی چون فرهنگ ما وابسته به این نام ها است، و همچنان تاريخ غنی و گهن این سرزمین مال آریانا و خراسان بزرگ است نه افغانستان، من هرگز افغان نبودم، نیستم و نخواهم بود، چون اجداد ام افغان نبودند. و انشاءالله یک روز نوع حکومت داری تغیر کرده (فدرالیزم) و نام افغانستان را هم تغیر باید بدهند که مردم این سرزمین در رفاع و آسایش بتوانند زندگی کنند و از این نام تباری(افغانستان= پشتونستان) که وجود دارد خلاص شویم، و این سر زمین بتواند خانه تمام اقشار، قوم، و ملت هایی که هستن شود... چون چیزی که جبری باشد، آینده خوب ندارد افغانستان مساوی است به پشتونستان و در حالیکه این سرزمین خانه همه ما است تمام اقوام (تاجک،هزاره، ایماق، پشه یی، پشتون و غیره...) یک نام انتخابی باشد بین همه اقوام تا بتواند این جغرافیا خانه همه شد (بيشتر از 16 قوم)... نه تنها یک قوم. اگر اينطور شود هرگز کسی نخواهد توانست تا این کشور را به بدبختی بکشاند و درحقیقت ناهنجاری اجتماعی از بین خواهد رفت... به امید انسانيت و نیکبختی هميشه خوشبین باشیم، و کوشش کنیم تا از تاريخ و معلومات عمومی و تکنالوژی معاصر آشنایی داشته باشیم ... Pnjr
Nobody ruined afghanistan, their so called holy book ruined it.. I hope one day afghanistan become more beautiful and peaceful than what we are seeing in this video..
Max MJ The Soviet Union invaded Afghanistan in 1978 and funded a Maoist-Marxist coup there, they then fully attacked in 1979 helping the Communist backed northern Afghanistan against the rebel southern Afghanistan funded by NATO, this caused the later Afghan Civil War which lead to Afghanistan being in the place it is today, ruined
Yep. Afghans ruined themselves. The holy book allows the men to escape responsibility of providing or improving their life. Allah will provide... insha'Allah.when was the last time that Allah came racing over the mountains with a truck load food?
jaaleb injaa as k maa afghan haa az farhang balaa hamesha sohbat meknem waley dar amal 0 astem, shuma bbined dar qismat comment haaye een video afghan haa ba jaan ham eftaaadan wa yak deegar khod raa deshnaam medan, k khodesh nemayaangar taaseer bad farhang 30 saal akheer as, shuma aga ba yak video az keshwar haaye gharb tawajuh kned wa dar qesmat comment haa hech waqt nakhaahed deed k yak digar khod ra tawheen knan, wa shaayad paida shawa bazey ahmaq k een kaar raa bknad, waley 95% mardom dga dunya haaley daanestan k deshnaam daadan dar comment raahe hal nes, wa baayad az tareeq manteq gap hal shawad, waley mutasefaana dar afghanistan 80% mardom az tareeq jabr zor wa dashnaam ideology khod ra balaaye deegaran meqaboulaanan, ba hamaan khaater keshwar haaye asia ba khessos afghanistan laqab jahaan sewum ra greftan, goftani zyaad as waley shayad shuma bgoyen k ee aadam cheqa por mega, baaz ham amo gap as aga kasey chizey ra ba afghan haa az dil soozi bgoya, megan oo ee aadam eqa por goft, ba oo khaater bazey waqt khaamoushi ra ekhtyaar meknom.
that was a really glorious era of afghanistan,a great nation,we proud such a great nation.they r a symbol of resistance
You call this glorious, it looks like shit
@@fariborzhaftar8111 well it *was* a peaceful time for afghanistan, before the USSR tried to invade and before the terrorist groups shown today. Afghanistan then was undergoing some development until the USSR and the USA destroyed its people
Glorious? It looks like 19th century.
smiling People in their own world, so impressing !
Perhaps one day in Khyberspace again...
great footage and camera work!
Ah the pure village life. Wished they also had a movie like this of the Capital of Afghanistan, Kabul. Kabul was such a modern and progressive place at that time
This is Kabul city. Wake up Laila jan. I am the little kid in the middle of the three young teenage boys, at least one of my pictures at home looks like it. I know a bearded westerner took our pictures. Again, this is the heart of kabul in 1959 when I was about 11 years old.
Salis Omar PhD.
This is a second reply to Laila Samadi:
First, this is the very heart of Kabul city. It is close to Chaman Hozoory in center of Kabul. Of the three boys, the kid in the center now has two PhDs (Doctorate Degree), speaks six languages (English, French, Arabic, Urdu, Farsi, and of course his mother tongue Pakhtu), lives in the Capital of Canada, Ottawa city, owns a house valued at over one million dollars, has a Mercedese and a Wrangler each worth about eighty thousand dollars and, works for the government of Canada as a senior officer. How do I know, you ask? I know because that boy is me. Yes, I am that eleven years old boy in the middle with a smile on his face. Of course that smile has long gone!!!
Salis Omar
Fuck progressive shit
Back in the 1970's and early 1980's, Afghanistan was apparently like the modern day Dubai. My client told me....an Indian lady born in Afghanistan. Her parents apparently moved from India to Afghanistan when the country was doing well, they were some kind of professionals.
From what I understand Afghanistan is a rich country in terms of the land and its resources. But, it has been wasted and destroyed because of the hateful religion that has consumed their minds from the small to big amongst them.
@@fir8550
Ignorant beliefs such as yours consume and constrict minds. Islam for the first time in human history anywhere and any religion or creed recognized woman as a human being. Islam (and not the Greeks) introduced the concept of democracy to the human race. Islam conceived and perfected the market economy (capitalism). Islam (Omar ibn al-Khitab) introduced the welfare state to the world. Islam intriduced 90% of all sciences. Ever wondered where the words algebra, chemistry, medical alcohol and hundreds of other scietific words come from? You guessed it. They are all arabic words. In the words of world-famous rennaisance thinker "if islam had not come to Europe, westerners would still have been living like wild beasts". Get educated
Salis Omar PhD, Afghanistan
This is Countryside. Kabul is so beautiful and peaceful in the 50s more than this days. But I believe Afghanistan will back peaceful country and modern ..
it will.
best wishes and love from india
+Bboy ROCKY indeed...kabul was a beautiful capital over asia...
It won't. It is occupied and is being exploited by foreign countries and, unfortunately, India is one of those powers who've been exploiting Afghanistan and its people for the past decade. It is doomed.
People looks genuinely happy then. Beautiful people🌸❤️
Thank you so much for sharing. Its amazing :)
EVERYBODY IN THE VIDEO WAS SMILING!!!!!!!
Yes, it was the most happy country in the world before foreigners destroyed it. Unfortunately!
They destroyed our happiness and our lives.
@@Analysis_Paralysis yesyes, always the bed foreigners :))
how beautiful everything was so peaceful
OMG how did you get an HD camera in 1950s ?
its remastered and digitalized...
+plung3r
Depending on the film quality, camera and transfer equipment, you can indeed get a 1080p digital transfer from a 35mm film made in the 1950s.
look carefully the video looks like slow motion and if we pay attention the video is not that much clear HD, it has been converted from black and white to a colorful video and peoples around and lots of things shows it might be from 1950's
wow look how peaceful.
It is the Afghanistan of 1950's . You can say by paying attention to the passing soldiers .
yeah i am agree it might be those years.
what a beauty what a rich culture ...kabul was d best capital over asia ...but it is a video takent of village...pruod to be Afghan
+Mohammad Dawood Sayide This is Kandahar actually, still beautiful
له عراق څخه 🇮🇶 زه له افغانستان سره مینه لرم 🇦🇫
از عراق 🇮🇶 من افغانستان را دوست دارم 🇦🇫
مِنَ العِـراق 🇮🇶 أنـا أُحِـب أَفغـانسـتـان 🇦🇫
From Iraq 🇮🇶 I love Afghanstan 🇦🇫
Are you Iraqi or Afghan? If you are Iraqi, it is great that you know the Afghan languages.
@@WordsofHonesty Yes, I’m Iraqi 🇮🇶 I love Afghans 🇦🇫 & their languages like Pashtu & Deri, I know easy words for basic conversation from each, because I need sometimes to do a search in your native languages to know more about the beautiful Afghan culture which is diverse & interesting just like a fruit basket that contains everything ❤️🌹 I always wish the love & peace for Afghanistan, the rich country that contains a variety of geography & topography 🌸🌹
@@h.h.entertainer3978 Wow amazing! It is incredible that you've written those phrases in the Afghan languages so correctly especially in Pashto which is my language. Your Pashto is much better than my Arabic which I'm trying to improve by listening to Arabic news channels. You Iraqis are amazing people. Iraqis and Afghans have so many things in common. Your country is the cradle of civilization.
أحب العراق مهد الحضارة والحرية ❤️
@@WordsofHonesty Deera Manena my friend.. Yes , there are a lot of ways to learn Arabic but the problem is that Arabic has so many accents that have big differences in between & all are different from the classic or Modern Standard Arabic.. But in general everything will be easy if you have a good vocabulary background & good knowledge in basic grammar of how to make a sentence…
News & conférence all are in standard Arabic, but most of the songs are in local dialects..
ګرانو افغانانو ته زما سلامونه، موږ تاسو ټولو سره مینه لرو ❤️🌹🌸
@@h.h.entertainer3978 Well, that is the issue with many languages. Pashto also has many dialects and accents that are different from the standard version but not to the extent Arabic is. The reason might be because Arabic has a far bigger variety of dialects compared to many languages as it stretches over a large area and has speakers in hundreds of millions. In my opinion, Modern Standard Arabic is the gateway to learning the language. Standard Arabic has its unique characteristics. You can express ideas in this language in a more eloquent, articulate and concise manner. There is a reason why Allah sent Quran in Arabic. Can I ask which city of Iraq you come from?
This is Helmand 1970's. When U.S built the city of Marjah
This is Kandahar not Kabul, kabul was a large booming city in the 1950s, nonetheless still beautiful.
Thanks for shearing this vidoe
is that from 1950 ????? omg so good qualitty
It's not 1950 it's 1975 in Kabul you can see the from the cars and the quality of the film
Afghanistan 1950 look like England early 1800 and now it look like early 1980s
@imranafg "look like England early 1800"
...minus the "dark satanic mills"!
In 2016 they said they are going to build the tallest tower in Afghanistan and make it luxury
Said who?
They will build tallest tower and destroy it with plane, hahahahaha, don't feel bad this is true.
Wasn't there a tower called Tower of Babel?
Now it looks the same sadly
So back in the 1950's camera could not record sound. Im also from Kabul and 23 years old.
Bamyan Dambora Festival This video was restored and remastered, plus this city is not Kabul it is Kandahar
Fascinating...like Tibet very much a Medieval society then...but at least they did not have to contend with war.
Not similar to the "medievil" societies in Europe. People in Afghanistan had emotional intelligence which the civilizations in the West still lack. This is also the very reason the West has been waging war at the East. The West lacks humanity and doesn't respect life.
So eerie, perhaps because it's silent.
Life is still the same over there, no changes even after 70 years.
"Mike Aziz" really?
You DONT seem to see the change, just like your name!
Apart from mechanical vehicles.... It hasn't changed for 1000 years. That is the way they want it. Leave them at it
I'm trying to make and visualize an animated Indiana Jones movie set in 1941 where he goes to Kabul, but I can't for the life of me find some good footage or decent visuals of what the nation look at the 40's, so as of now, this is the best I have available to me. Useful because I have this annoying part of my head when I keep on thinking he's just in Cairo or the streets of Algiers again when I still know Afghanistan is a very different nation in terms of looks from the rest of them. Does anybody here know what presence the Nazis had in Afghanistan? I heard there were just some Nazi officials that only acted as propagandists and promoters of the regime but the army wasn't in the nation at all. Is there anything drastically different in this footage from what the nation would have looked like in the 40's?
Mr. Fedora nazis trained and prepared afghan armies at that time
@pacman5698
"Does anybody here know what presence the Nazis had in Afghanistan? I heard there were just some Nazi officials that only acted as propagandists and promoters of the regime"
Yes, I once read in a German 1950's book about Afghanistan ("Wenn es 12 schlägt in Kabul" ["When it strikes 12 in Kabul" - alluding to the "Top-e Shast" salute cannon on Koh-e Sher Darvaza] by Walter Krause) about an Afghan SS major named Ata Ullah...
Filmed by a American engineer who built a dam whilst in Afghanistan.
sad, but true..
Boy makes similar hands like in movies jean-claude van damme, and i think it is NOT 50's but 90's or even closer
Anar de Kandahar! Jabara!
مهاجرت او بيا هلته مذهبي درسونو په خاصه توګه مدرسو حيوانان رانه جوړ کړل .
افسوس 😥.
well said
دے افغانستان تباہی کے دے پاکستان لاس دا
lol its peaceful coz there is no sound..
Its hasn't changed much since then, except maybe a little less secure now.
only the trucks have been replaced by toyotas or something.
هر چیز به حقیقت اول اش برمیگردد، مطمئن هستم...
من یک خراسانی هستم و هم یک آریایی چون فرهنگ ما وابسته به این نام ها است، و همچنان تاريخ غنی و گهن این سرزمین مال آریانا و خراسان بزرگ است نه افغانستان، من هرگز افغان نبودم، نیستم و نخواهم بود، چون اجداد ام افغان نبودند. و انشاءالله یک روز نوع حکومت داری تغیر کرده (فدرالیزم) و نام افغانستان را هم تغیر باید بدهند که مردم این سرزمین در رفاع و آسایش بتوانند زندگی کنند و از این نام تباری(افغانستان= پشتونستان) که وجود دارد خلاص شویم، و این سر زمین بتواند خانه تمام اقشار، قوم، و ملت هایی که هستن شود...
چون چیزی که جبری باشد، آینده خوب ندارد افغانستان مساوی است به پشتونستان و در حالیکه این سرزمین خانه همه ما است تمام اقوام (تاجک،هزاره، ایماق، پشه یی، پشتون و غیره...) یک نام انتخابی باشد بین همه اقوام تا بتواند این جغرافیا خانه همه شد (بيشتر از 16 قوم)... نه تنها یک قوم.
اگر اينطور شود هرگز کسی نخواهد توانست تا این کشور را به بدبختی بکشاند و درحقیقت ناهنجاری اجتماعی از بین خواهد رفت...
به امید انسانيت و نیکبختی هميشه خوشبین باشیم، و کوشش کنیم تا از تاريخ و معلومات عمومی و تکنالوژی معاصر آشنایی داشته باشیم ...
Pnjr
Islam Ahmadzai
افت کلام خوب چیز است، اگر بیخرد نباشیم....
Islam Ahmadzai
در پنجشیر هستم، اما تو میتوانی بروی کوه سلیمان😂😂😂
Nobody ruined afghanistan, their so called holy book ruined it.. I hope one day afghanistan become more beautiful and peaceful than what we are seeing in this video..
Vital Mark What do the Soviets and NATO do with the Afghanistan ?
western imperialism has ruined the whole world. there are decimated villages all over the planet that are poor so that westerners can be rich.
They've invaded and basically destablized Afghanistan.
Max MJ The Soviet Union invaded Afghanistan in 1978 and funded a Maoist-Marxist coup there, they then fully attacked in 1979 helping the Communist backed northern Afghanistan against the rebel southern Afghanistan funded by NATO, this caused the later Afghan Civil War which lead to Afghanistan being in the place it is today, ruined
Yep. Afghans ruined themselves. The holy book allows the men to escape responsibility of providing or improving their life. Allah will provide... insha'Allah.when was the last time that Allah came racing over the mountains with a truck load food?
1970
Max Ray, you don't know what your talking about.
beutiful
This is now not 1950s
+AZ even 25 yrs b4 also there werent such clothing culture...its ancient video indeed..cuz we afghanz know nt out
pll
+Mohammad Dawood Sayide What are you talking about? Afghans have been wearing this clothing forever, its part of our culture.
Принципе нечего не изминилось
A few young girls yet Woman are all kept out of sight here .?? But then again nothing to do with some makes any sense .
یہ کوئیٹہ کاشہر ہھے
Kabul
ما همه یک افغان هستیم تفرقه انداختن به نقص همه ی ما تمام میشود ۰۰۰۰«
تل دی وی افغانستان
🇦🇫😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭
cheqa maqbol bood zadan sagara khrab kadan
افغانستان فضل ربی خدر خیل
jaaleb injaa as k maa afghan haa az farhang balaa hamesha sohbat meknem waley dar amal 0 astem, shuma bbined dar qismat comment haaye een video afghan haa ba jaan ham eftaaadan wa yak deegar khod raa deshnaam medan, k khodesh nemayaangar taaseer bad farhang 30 saal akheer as, shuma aga ba yak video az keshwar haaye gharb tawajuh kned wa dar qesmat comment haa hech waqt nakhaahed deed k yak digar khod ra tawheen knan, wa shaayad paida shawa bazey ahmaq k een kaar raa bknad, waley 95% mardom dga dunya haaley daanestan k deshnaam daadan dar comment raahe hal nes, wa baayad az tareeq manteq gap hal shawad, waley mutasefaana dar afghanistan 80% mardom az tareeq jabr zor wa dashnaam ideology khod ra balaaye deegaran meqaboulaanan, ba hamaan khaater keshwar haaye asia ba khessos afghanistan laqab jahaan sewum ra greftan, goftani zyaad as waley shayad shuma bgoyen k ee aadam cheqa por mega, baaz ham amo gap as aga kasey chizey ra ba afghan haa az dil soozi bgoya, megan oo ee aadam eqa por goft, ba oo khaater bazey waqt khaamoushi ra ekhtyaar meknom.
😭👈
Afghanistan is where it wants to be. 8th century . Take out the mechanical propelled vehicles,.. and they are there. Leave them at it. Best of luck.