What a nice, positive documentary. People in Tajikistan seem so nice, they deserve a better tomorrow.

A really great documentary!

Great BBC production....it represents the difficult path of the many former USSR nations on finding their own way in this most competitive world, after the umbilical cord has been severed. It reminds one of the many nations finding independence after the separation from Great Britain....few really prosper , most go into chaos! Keep up the good work Tajiks! ...observer Jules...

@wildcat24ize

9 жыл бұрын

What if Bristish Empire still existed? Maybe it would be better to those nations who got what they wanted. I mean independence doesn't always mean better life.

this was a very good documentary. thank you.

One of the few places where the standard of living was substantially higher during the times of USSR.

Thank you so much for making this video. This video taught be a lot about where I came from.

As usual with BBC, Soviet Union equals atheism, when atheism was never really implemented or forced. And Orthodox Christianity and Islam still hold strong in the USSR. They were just suppressed in their views and speeches. For example, an Imam or priest cannot speak about religion of their chosing in a state council or to an assembly of people in public areas. But in their churches and mosques they are not being suppressed that much as widely reported in the west.

@GeborenInGoden

5 жыл бұрын

soviet union does equals atheist extremist terrorists. atheism was never forced? go look what the russian and uzbek communists did in central asia! they closed mosques, madrassas ( islamic schools), women were not allowed to wear full head covers, etc. these filthy communist bastards killed a lot of people and forced atheism. they moved different ethnic populations to divide and conquer. imams are not allowed to say what they want in the mosques. they can only say things which is approved by your corrupted filthy goverment.

Awesome video... Thanks a lot. :D

BBC should have done a series covering the different former soviet republics

Great nation with a beautiful culture. I wish them to have as beautiful future as well.

Thanks for a good job.

Great documentary. Looks like Tajikistan has made some drastic improvements. The landscape looks a lot like Death Valley, CA and parts of Arizona, Utah, Colorado.

A lot of comment on Soviet Communism. I think the social policy and the authoritarian way it was implemented was flawed. But it worked well for business, agriculture and industry. The organizational aspects of it brought good results, prosperity. I think that is the part older people miss.

Beautifully narrated and captured.Hoping the best for Tajikistan's future.

Nationalism was never really an issue in the Soviet Union. I’m glad this documentary talked about the positive aspects the soviets had on Tajikistan instead of portraying them as occupiers.

Beautiful country with lots of mountains at 2:02.

Wonderful documentary. have learned a lot about a country and its history I did not anything about. Beautiful people, hard working and determined to succeed. I hope that the extremists won't destroy it.

@navylaks2

8 жыл бұрын

+Charles DeMets If we keap putting sanctions on the Russians they will

Very simple and at the same time very impressive and nostalgic representation of the current situation, not only of Tajikistan, but the whole Central Asia.

Thank you so much. I dream to visit this great Central Asian country for the rest of my life.

Thanks for this great Documentary.

i am watching this video from Khujand, Tajikistan. i wanted to learn more about this country where i travelled for the past 2 weeks

@carsonking5549

7 жыл бұрын

How's the travelling going?

What a great story, balanced hopeful and informative. I really hope for the best life has to capture for this admirable nation. All the best to Tadjikistan.

i am watching this video from Uzbekistan Samarkand city, i am tajik too, one day I will go to Tajikistan and i will meet with Tamils there, I'd Love do need them, Uzbekistan is more beautiful country, I love my county, I so proud of Uzbekistan!!!!

I'm not a religious dude, but bless these people

Beautiful documentary by BBC.

What a wonderful documentary, well done! I wish Tajikistan a bright and prosperous future!

Missing the Soviet times

As usual in BBC very well done it, very interesting.

Last part of this Documentary kinda Gives me Lessons In life xD Hope Tajikistan would have A Better future

@navylaks2

8 жыл бұрын

+Backyard Aviator Tajkistan can only have a better future if the sanctions on Russia are lifted

missing old soviet times

Excellent and objective documentary

I miss My country 😭

Fascinating documentary

Very nice.

Very nice Vid

We iranian love our persian brothers and sisters in tajikistan.

Assalom alekum from Uzbekistan

great i wish to ppl of tajiktsan the best from afghanistan hamzunaban aziz jor bashid va sar boland

Great Tajik nation

Good documentary. I like history...

Tajik language,is not a form,of PERSIAN language,it,is a Persian language!

@cyrusmokhtarinia499

6 жыл бұрын

alisher dzhumaev tajiki is a dialect of persian

@olevvalbe2502

4 жыл бұрын

The mais difference between between Farsi or Dari, to Tajik, is that Tajik is written in a modified Cyrilic script, and has some Russian loan words; whereas Farsi and Dari are written in a modified Arabic script.

@A.A_xv

4 жыл бұрын

alisher dzhumaev think he meant a dialect of Persian

@muzakkirkhan386

3 жыл бұрын

We are Muslims We are ONE Баръакс, мӯъминон бародари ӯ ҳастанд

Fascinating...

Does anyone know the song at the end? So beautiful! Thanks!

@redcorridor566

3 жыл бұрын

Daler Nazarov - Surudi Neki :)

Very interesting documentary. Especially in the Western world, we don't hear much from the -stan countries with exception of Afghanistan and Pakistan.

@navylaks2

8 жыл бұрын

+Andy Cockrum Right and it also shows that the end of the Soviet Union didn't allways have a positive effect on it's former provinces. Tajkistan is very much effected by the current sanctions on Russia which will have terrible consequences for all of central asia. In other words we must lift those sanctions, and implement Minsk 2.

@carsonking5549

7 жыл бұрын

I visited Cuba in 2009 and I appreciate it wasn't anything like the past, it was a great experience, communism. I went on holiday to Yugoslavia when I was a kid and have been to Hungary, Poland and Croatia, as a lorry driver. It's a whole different world, I would love to visit North Korea.

beautiful place.

Life was sooo much better in the USSR. Everyone who lived there can assure that. But the American propaganda denies that.

@narekhunanyan992

7 жыл бұрын

Daniel Tiger I'm not talkin about better living standards in comparison with the pre-1917 Russia. I mean they all say they had much better lives than they have NOW. Even those living in Europe or the USA.

@Kat-tr2ig

7 жыл бұрын

I've seen dozens of documentaries about the former Soviet states, and EVERY SINGLE ONE had something in common- the residents saying how much better their lives were during the communist era.

@gophop

7 жыл бұрын

Bullshit. Aside from murders, confiscation of property, and corruption, it wasn't sustainable. USSR was in debt like no other because of mandates and planning. Shit had to be done a certain way regardless of cost. That's why everyone had a job, even when those jobs were useless and didn't pay for themselves. Communism is a stupid mistake and a pie in the sky fairy tale. It has always failed. It always will.

@christinas.4342

7 жыл бұрын

Katie Frank In Russia life today is much better than in the Soviet era. Much freer and more prosperous. But the 1990s were hell on earth. For Central Asian countries it's still worse than in the Soviet era, they were economically very dependent on the rest of the USSR and didn't want independence. Russia today has one of the biggest immigrant populations in the world, mostly from Central Asia. In Tajikistan almost half of their GDP comes from remittances from Russia (money that migrant workers send home to their families). At some high schools in Kyrgyzstan students can sign up for lessons on how to move to Russia because so many of them want to do that after graduating.

@cooperrush6474

6 жыл бұрын

"In Russia life today is much better than in the Soviet era" Is it tho? Obviously the Russian economy has improved significantly since the recession of the 1990s, but I think the Soviet era under Kruschev/Brezhnev was significantly better for the working class. It kinda shows too, considering that there is quite a large sense of Stalin/Soviet nostalgia in Russia right now. And even if this were true, it wouldn't really mean a lot considering that like you said, the majority of former Soviet republics were better in those days, especially in Central Asia.

very nice..beautiful people

so the guy is a Tajikistan citizen of Uzbek Ethnic?

Great Documentary.

great

Fantastic that they continue to teach Tajik even though it's in a predominantly Uzbek speaking area of Turkmenistan. Really we Scots should be ashamed of our school systems which have allowed Gaelic to largely no longer be taught. It is taught on some islands still but barely on the mainland at all and will certainly perish.

Seems peaceful there

Can anyone please tell me what is the title of the song at 38.44 minutes in the documentary or who is the original singer of the song?

@devashishmishra2459

8 жыл бұрын

+Devashish Mishr Thanks a lot Mr. Muiz Mamadsaid.

@muizmamadsaid1067

8 жыл бұрын

You are welcome bro.)

tajikistan a good nation

Prosperity makes friends, adversity tries them.

May the almighty creator of all bless this country..My hope is that they will learn from the past to not be controlled by another set of beliefs, but that they open their minds and heart to all the worlds different benefits equally, so they can be informed and make up their own way intelligently.

Im proud to be tajik

a well made documentary showing a more positive side of the country. nevertheless not a single time was mentioned the effects of the war in afghanistan and the horrifying effects of drug trade since the war down south on tajikistan and other central asian countries.

good tajik launguage

Can I please get a link to the song being played in the background at 22:00-23:46? Thanks!

@redcorridor566

3 жыл бұрын

Look up Shams - Touro Nameparastam :)

The last soundtrack: Daler Nazarov - Surudi Neki

I love the documentary. Very nice. I personally can't be agree with the law, under 18 year can't enter in the Masjid/Mosque. This is the problem about every Muslim nation of ours. We wants one thing, the leaders do completely opposite. Before the colonial age, during Islamic civilization in school every student learn three language. Arabic because of Islam, Mother language because of the teaching of our Prophet, & last in the list Persian/Tajik/Dari/Farsi what ever you name it. The 3rd one has been taught due to the Islamic culture, Islamic poem, Islamic music, etc. This three combine, we had build the glories days of ours. Today, in the name of nation & states, we're handover our society to the banks. They do what ever in our society to make more money. Morality, ethics, & faith have no value. At all. Like the Saudi foreign minister said "... every religion have some people who wants to use it for their personal benefit." This should not be bring in any conclusion. We have to learn it & fight with the radical extremism. If not the radical always will use it, for their benefit. This is my request to you and all of you, don't accept this kind of nonsense.

@junaidali8361

7 жыл бұрын

what is nonsense in this?

@junaidali8361

7 жыл бұрын

what is nonsense in this?

Tajikistan had an actual future under communism

@mchlbk

5 жыл бұрын

lol

Fast forward 11 years, now we are in 2023, the same president is still in charge, not much has changed in the country economically.. No political leader should be allowed to govern a nation more than 8 years.. The history has shown over and over again the faith of the nations whose leader glued to the power and the consequences were devastating .. The Shah of Iran for 37 years, the Tajik president now, Rahmon for 31 years , the Turkish president Erdogan for 21 years and still counting ... At the end , none of these nations have prospered economically and being prosperous now.. As I write this in 2023, the inflation in Turkey has exceeded 100 % ... Sad ....

Central Asia needs to go back to pre 1917 situation, before october revolution.

wow, that's amazing. please como to be south America

The same story all over the World. Hold on to the rope of hope.

Well, to be fair, you can get arrested for saying the wrong thing in UK, Germany, and France, too.

i hope all Central Asian countries will prosper and have a unity and not get into Islam radicalism...Greetings to our Tajik brothers and sisters from Kyrgyzstan!!!

can somebody tell me whats the singers name on22:25 minute?

@muizmamadsaid1067

8 жыл бұрын

It's called Muboraksho- Turo nameparastam . Listen to his other songs. Trust you will enjoy 'em. ))

Very good documentary salute to linen to give them pen and books,otherwise Tajik peoples will be iletrate alike Afghanistan. Make me confused what type of independent now male going to Russia for jobs and women stay in home.

Hey man, the video is great but it's not about the country, its about your village andpeople of there. Aren't there any Tajiks who could give information instead of that Uzbek guys?

USSR was once a very diverse country when it came to racial ethnicity, Joseph Stalin was a Georgian of middle eastern blood, I’m Hispanic but of “Russian decent” & when u break it down it’s mostly just European and middle eastern blood. I found out bc of ancestry DNA results.

The Soviet Union was an amazing, safe, and prosperous country. Bourgeoisie propaganda ruined that though.

What opportunities is he talking about? Leaving the country to work in shitty jobs in Russia? Tajikistan is one of the most corrupt countries in the world and also very poor. Tajikistan was much better during USSR times.

ur people r so beautiful and exotic looking...

Need to destroy the Lenin's statue!

Tojichani yoki Eronchani sal bulsayam urganib qoyish kere! Kerak bolib qoladi bir kun!

@azizjuraboev

8 жыл бұрын

Ha dustim, Til bilsa nimasi yomon

@azizjuraboev

8 жыл бұрын

Autor: Xayrullo Aka Uzbek, Tojikiston mintaqasida tug'ilgan

Isn t it..and see how peoples blossoom once they are free of communism??

Personally I think it is much better to have corruption as an option in business :)

If Lenin had his way religion wouldnt exist in Uzbekistan and they would live regimented industrial lives.

I hope Tajikistan NEVER becomes Islamicised.

Why are they so russia-oriented?! Why not go further west to much richer countries?!

i am tajik from afghanistan, we defeated USSR

@YPR4022

6 жыл бұрын

Doni Habib Nurmagamedov Khrosoni yes after that u dug urself by ignoring free education,free Medical care and alot alot

@tajtajdar7773

5 жыл бұрын

@@YPR4022 No, you are wrong we Tajiks finally independent nation and now we will build our beloved country the way how we want, also in near future we will be united with our brothers and sisters in Afghanistan to create our historical statehood of Khurasan. In regard of education 99% of Tajiks are literate people, healthcare can not be free, if it is free then it means bad quality. This documentary was done 7 years ago, this person should do a new documentary about Tajikistan today, it is much different situation now. Tajikistan in his way to progress and great future and no Russian nor any other nations can stop Tajikistan from development.

A really great documentary!