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.
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...
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.
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...
Brezhnev in 1978: What this place needs is a large dollop of brotherly Socialist love... (Followed by war, civil war, Taliban, US invasion, Taliban...).
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
Bill's World Travels Playlist:
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Fantastic quality
The creativity and ingenuity of the saying ' necessity is the mother of invention' really comes through in countries with limited resources.
The vivid colour of those images grabs you by the collar and gives a shake!
These photos are really amazing! That uncle really had some great adventures! I am happy that all was captured on actual film slides.
We're still trying to figure out how he could afford that on his movie operator salary ))
That bicycle at 3:25 was the Toyota Landcruiser of bicycles. Never seen a seat like that.
Too cool for school )) They definitely loved their bikes ))
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!
That's the one, thanks!
Definitely hasn’t changed much 🥲
I was there in 2014. Kind of looks the same. Except the people seemed happier in 1975.
Well done, Uncle Bill. It is a very different place in time. Thank you for sharing.
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.
Yes, Uncle Bill managed to visit the country in that brief period between the 1973 Coup and the 1978 Saur Revolution.
Very nice pictures. It's amazing that they didn't fade over the years.
at about 1:36 i think that was a buick from the sixties.
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...
I love it. Its like seeing smiling ghosts from a pre-internet past.
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.
Where did she go? I subbed years ago.
@@peacefulamerican4994 After recent thrilling Afganistan trip probably to Thailand.
After the Afganistan thriller they probably went to Thailand.
Before the war it was in fact a tourist destination. It was a part of "Hippie trail"
Two thoughts, were are the poppy dealers? That most of these men and boys died fighting soviet invasion for ten years.
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...
The same with Iran. Modern-looking ladies were only in the large cities. The country was always ultraconservative
@@UshankaShow Oh of course... Thanks! :)
Brezhnev in 1978: What this place needs is a large dollop of brotherly Socialist love... (Followed by war, civil war, Taliban, US invasion, Taliban...).
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
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
one minute past the stone age.
National Geographic quality?? Appreciate Uncle Bill's efforts, but these are mediocre tourist happy snaps