You were so awesome to take the Kazakhstan Beatles cover band and taking them to Liverpool to fulfil their dreams! Good man!

@Dixon7JB

9 жыл бұрын

Yes, what a nice surprise at the end of the video.

@Aquarius199

9 жыл бұрын

That was cool, but they're The Kazakhstan Beatles, not The Kyrgyzstan Beatles.

@CarlosaurusRex

9 жыл бұрын

***** Ohh, my mistake. Let me rectify that.

@essboogy

9 жыл бұрын

***** Fucking spoiler alert?!

@CarlosaurusRex

9 жыл бұрын

essboogy It's a documentary... How's about you read the comments AFTER you watch the video. Since the comments section will generally contain posts from those who've already viewed it.

The 22 y.o student accompanying crew in Kyrgyzstan is Mr. Kadyr Toktogulov. 2012-2014 Head of communications department of Presidential office 2015-present Kyrgyzstan ambassador to USA

@uxaines8910

10 ай бұрын

He is educated nice man

Kazakhstan Beatles ROCK!

BTW.. The Kazakhstan Beatles are AWESOME!!!

@user-ii7zr3bj9c

5 күн бұрын

Australia and America will become the next Kazakhstan, where whites has been replaced by Asians.

The Kyrgyz students speak amazing English. I understand that they go to a university where everything is in English, but still, it's really impressive.

This film was created for people who hasnt theirs own mind,by whom government can manage, of course, unclever people are everywhere .Clever person,of course, will be have doubt from this film.Kazakhstan is a very great country with rich culture and history.Now Kazakhstan is a modern country.I am very proud of my country, I am proud that Atilla was from Kazakh land, proud that he defeated half of Europe, taught europeans to take a bath.I am very proud that we had the 2nd biggest library in the world famous Otrar library, Al-Farabi is a great scientist from Kazakh land.Undoubtedly, Kazakhstan will be a very strong country.

My home country KAZAKHSTAN! my relatives still living there!

Fascinating.

@H.MD.

9 жыл бұрын

your page needs a day i'm gonna follow you :)

@darwn977

9 жыл бұрын

Hamed Esmail Thanks Hamed.

@leteciaguzman4621

3 жыл бұрын

Well done

Chronicle of ex-Soviet era. Waste & pollution spread over the earth. Improving the environment is key to mankind's survival. Well done doc.

I'm half way through reading your book 'Step by step' and that's what's brought me here!🙂

@coxhoe789

2 ай бұрын

me too and a lot of it is hard to belive

16:13 was such a beautiful exchange.

@Decatron2

9 жыл бұрын

SomeGuy Thought the exact same thing. Laughter brings people together. And guns i suppose :D

Such a lovely ending. The lads got to realise their dream. Gave me goosebumps. Top stuff!

Kazakhstan is very advanced now, compared to back then. Kazakhstan is definitely one of the countries I want to visit and tour.

I worked in Mailisuu Kyrgystan for 6 months, a beautiful country with wonderful people. I would go back in a heartbeat. The drive from Bishkek to Mailisuu was something I will never forget both in summer and in winter.

Also have seen your Incredible journey with Simon Reeve

36:20 i really love this country

Kazakhstan beatles were amazing.

Lol, talk about ironic as Simon Reeve a Brit while traveling in Kazakhstan happens to firstly find an Irish pub and secondly later on after their vehicle is out of commission just happens to be taken to a place featuring a band playing ... The Beatles.

Hello Simon Reeve sir...I recently watched your documentaries on Sony BBC earth India..and have become a fan your work and ideas.

To counter all the negative comments abou this video, i found it very useful and informative. I don't think it shows either Kazakhstan or Kyrgyzstan in a bad light. It's not meant to be a sugar-coated tourist video, but shows things of interest to Western viewers, including the supposed war on terror. Also, the interpreters/ guides are brilliant in these programs - the lady from Kazakhstan is just beautiful, and the Uzbek lady is so cool!

-stan is like land in English, for example England,Scotland,Finland... so we have -stan like Tajikistan,Uzbekistan.Afghanistan. by the way it's persian, I mean the -stan

@ashleycal3172

10 жыл бұрын

strange that you all use stan even though most countries who have that ending are Turkic/Mongol and not Persian, the only Persian one I think is Tajikstan

@Potatoman1578

10 жыл бұрын

Ashley Cal there is a simple answer for your question. Every country that has -stan suffix at the end of their names have been more or less influenced by Persian culture. just look at the map of the greater Iran and it shows the sphere of influence of Persian culture. here is the link: upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/0/03/Greater_Iran.gif

@MAZDAKPRODUCTION

10 жыл бұрын

Ashley Cal I agree with Azad. If you look at all the Iranian Provinces (all states in Iran) they all end with stan. so Stan=State. The word state is directly driven from its Sanskrit Persian root Stan= State of... Khuzestan = State of The Khuzes Afghanistan = State of Afghans Pakistan = State of Paks Tajikistan = State of Tajiks Thus many fathers of constitution modeled the US to follow the Persian Empire`s system of government according to their own quotes.

@rexherrera7722

9 жыл бұрын

What if all the stan would merge into 1 nation like UK

@KarandeepSinghK

9 жыл бұрын

MAZDAKPRODUCTION Stan also means boobies in sanskrit ! Now that would would make a great name !

After reading about all his experiences and vision in his book Step by Step .Watching this video feels surreal

Awesome Kazak portion-great to see they have kept their traditions alive after all the years of occupation and change. Loved the food and Yert traditions. Can see how the American Indians would have derived from this culture at one point way back. After I saw the documnetary I looked up Kazak links with American Indians and saw that research shows a genetic link with the Altai valley which is partly in Kazakhstan and the American Indians. Peace.

simon reeve is a good host

I love the Kazakhi host lady. Sweet, charmingly peaceful and wise. Infact most people look happy go lucky and highly intelligent in this country. This country would go far if these people indeed represent the majority of the land. Full power to Kazakhstan.

@tento2945

9 жыл бұрын

Hello. Who are you by ethnicity? Iranian? No?

Bravo or cheers, what a trip. Simon comes off as vulnerable and real.

Absolutely outstanding

Stan means Land Land means Stan Afghani'stan' = Land of the Afghan's Uzbeki'stan' = Land of the Uzbek's Eng'land' = Land of the English Fin'land' = Land of the Finn's

@jackikr6708

10 жыл бұрын

you absolutelly right

@KarandeepSinghK

9 жыл бұрын

*Afghans , Uzbeks and Finns ( Actually it's the land of the Finnish, but Fins is alright too)

@Beyonder1987

9 жыл бұрын

जय उपाध्याय actually "Stan" is derived primary from Persian origin.

@Beyonder1987

9 жыл бұрын

जय उपाध्याय The word "Stan" is a Persian word, it derived from Persia. Just like the words "Land" came from German.

@rootsandroutes1

9 жыл бұрын

जय उपाध्याय SolidTube911 You're both right, of course. Old Persian/Avestan -stan and Sanskrit स्थान (sthān, as in Rajasthan, and a word found in the Vedas) are the same because both share a common ancestor more recent than Proto-Indo-European: Proto-Indo-Iranian. Slavic languages, another branch, have -stan too, where it means related things like "habitation," "camp," "tent," and "apartment." The word is very old, pre-dating all written language. However, as a geographic term, it was certainly spread a greater distance by Iranian languages (not just Persian) and the Turkic languages that adopted it.

I couldn't be the only one who felt happy when the Kyrgyz Beatles band got their chance to perform in liverpool xD

Stan translates to 'place' in a lot of languages in central asia, pakistan, afghanistan even india. So kazakhstan means - land of the kazakhs.

Let's get Kazakhstan Beatles to Liverpool!

Awesome that the band got to visit the UK and play.

I watched this when I was a kid age 16.. And I am watching this again at the age of 33..

Absolutely terrific - thank you for posting such great content.

I really enjoyed the film, nice point of view. Those countries are very interesting, the people seem to be great, just like the people I know from both countries. Greetings from Bulgaria ;)

Impressive scenery for a beautiful nation.

WOW! WOW! THE BAND IS AWESOME!!!!!

This was amazing. Thank you so much for sharing this.

Great job Simon Reeve ! I knew zero about the Stans before viewing your documentary on Top Documentary. You have a charming manner as a host and seem to make men and women you interview comfortable. I come away feeling like I have been to those countries, and I am looking forward to viewing more of your work. Mel Melene

I very much like Kazakhstan, it's nice!

well done and I thank you!

think i'm more fascinated with the geography of Kazakhstan and the people who inhabit the country, they're like a combination of chinese and middle easterners, an peculiar mix.

@subsrebel4

10 жыл бұрын

Central Asia and Eurasian Steppes was once homeland of ancient Iranic and other Indo-European Peoples. All the Central Asians are basically a mixture of Caucasus and Mongoloid races.

@user-ii7zr3bj9c

5 күн бұрын

Australia and America will become the next Kazakhstan, where whites has been replaced by Asians.

It's funny but true the Stans are where Asian and White merged, same thing happens in Northern Africa and Middle East where Black and White merged. To put it simply, it's where the color line starts to blur.

@ashleycal3172

9 жыл бұрын

Thats not necessarily the case, Central Asia's population is almost 90% Turkic. Turkic people are not white they are an Asiatic mongoloid race who are a directly related to Mongols which they mixed with. The few Turks who aren't mixed with mongol are still asiatic. There is no place in Central Asia were Turkic people's mixed with White Europeans. Their slavic conquerors didn't mix with them nor did any neighboring Europeans countries nearby so thats an untrue statement.

@Arahansannihilation

9 жыл бұрын

What are you based this on, white supremacy theory? Just look at them, for satan's sake.

@ashleycal3172

9 жыл бұрын

Ranases I'm looking at them and they look like your typical modern day Turk in central Asia. 60% of them look East Asia or clearly of Mongol stock and the others look less East Asian and have more of a central Asian look which looks like a hybrid of Middle Eastern and East asian but regardless even the less mongol looking Turks look Asian. None look white or European, some may have some European blood but very minimal and very rare in the population. I'm not trying to offend I'm just stating the fact that Central Asians are Asian and yes it is a cross roads between East and West but bottom line is most Turks and Central Asians are of East Asian decent with some near Eastern genetics from places like Western Asia and from Indo-Iranians being present with of course the Genetics of true non-mongol mixed Turkic peoples but the vast majority mixed with Mongols and Mongols and Turks were already genetically similar even before their union.

@Potatoman1578

9 жыл бұрын

Ashley Cal I think by white he means Caucasian"race" not blond and blue eyed Europeans and Americans. Yes indeed Central Asia like North Africa is one of those rare places where most of the people are mixed. In the case of Central Asia there has been a long term mixing happened between the original settlers of Iranic people like Sogdians, Scythians, Parthians and Bactrians and Indo-European people like Tocharians with Altaic people like Turks and Mongols who began to settle in that region 1000 year ago .This was further clarified with the genetic test of Uzbek people which showed that indeed their genes are half Iranic and half Turko-Mongolic. Also in the past 200 years Russian immigrants have more or less had impact on the genetic variation of Central Asia.

@ashleycal3172

9 жыл бұрын

Azad Khademi I agree with you. Both the other two guys were making it seem like Whites like Anglo's or Slavs were mixing with Central Asian Turks to make the genetics of Central Asia but I agree Iranian people who are Indo-European and you could argue that they aren't what people would consider "White" by European standards but they are a Europid/Caucasian race and the Uzbek's are descended from them, probably a lot more Uzbeks are descended from them then are say Kyrgz or Kazakh's because they look very asiatic compare to the more middle eastern looking Uzbeks. The Uzbek's and Tajiks look very similar but Kyrgz and Kazakh's look very East Asian/Mongol to me. Also I would argue how much a genetic impact Russians have on Central Asia despite their being quite a few Russians living in CA. As history has show most Europeans don't tend to intermix with other groups, especially Russians back when Kazakhstan was being colonized by Russia. It is usually the Asians forcing their genes on the Europeans then vice versa but any Russian genetics in Central Asia is likely minimal aside from the obvious Russians living their.

Thanks for the good documental!

Thanks a lot Reeve

Interesting to see two nations filled with people who look very similar to me. I am Eurasian in the US and don't see many people who look like me here...

Thank you, what you have done has saved some lives.

Thank you for this very interesting and informative documentary

Great watch Iona all the best from 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

this is a great documentary

Beautiful presentation , very informative, amazing documentaries .. good job mr. simon

Interesting documentary about Kyrgyzstan and Kazakhstan brought to us by Liam Gallagher

so it's filmed in 2003 year.

Great programs, very educational

So much history and good people vanished-it really breaks my heart-and makes me appreciate the time on this beautiful planet.The diversity that it offers..god bless all the good people

7:58 It says something important that the writing on that man's jacket is in Chinese (naturally, since he's Chinese), and *English*, but not Russian or Kazakh.

@RonJohn63

9 жыл бұрын

Job Jon Right, I know he's Chinese. But in Kazakhstan, where Russian is the official language, you'd think that the either Russian or Kazakh would *also* be on the jacket. But no, because the Chinese realize that Russia is basically irrelevant except as a bully.

interesting. thank-you for posting

Love these documentaries

Once again , one of my interesting things I like!

The Kazakh Beatles are singing "Nowhere Man" by British Beatles

I like this documentary. It's neutral.

@StarlogTrade

8 жыл бұрын

+EdoTV Biased. Because I'm from Uzbekistan. It's total bullshit.

@StarlogTrade

8 жыл бұрын

+Straight Guy This documantary is total bullshit.

@andygaras

8 жыл бұрын

+EdoTV i like you do you like me?

@zackdelarocha8995

8 жыл бұрын

+Straight Guy why us ut bullshit please explain? I am genuinely interested to hear your side.

@BisdakTravelSports

8 жыл бұрын

Straight Guy Yes I'm interested to know why you said so.

I love the ‘stans! Such a fascinating part of the world. I have been fortunate to have been to Kyrgyzstan in 2010.

Kyrgyzstan looks nice.

Great Video, cheers

great documentary!!

Captain Ortez damn 🔥

Transparency and harsh punishments are the key to fighting corrupt officials.

Wau…how much time has changed:(very good documentary.people are good in their nature.absolutely crazy what we allow to happen for a sake of mindless progress❤thank you

Thanks SR for all your most excellent series on our beautiful planet 🌎 & it’s wonderful places & all its anomalies to boot 🙏

Its a shame the footage doesn't show some of the beautiful landscapes in Kyrgyzstan. Went there on a wild frontiers trip some years ago, and it was incredible. Tian Shan mountains are amazing.

I love Capt. Ortiz's juxtaposition in this video. We just heard a militant Muslim curse the power-hungry America, and then we're introduced to bubbly, happy, fuck-all Capt. Ortiz, representing the Great Satan. Love it.

Kazakhstan ... homeland of the greatest boxer on the planet - Gennady Golovkin

@paulanthony6791

3 жыл бұрын

Ali and Tyson...”hold my beer”

Simon Reeve best

the background music in this film is actually from russian culture. i've expected more professionalism from BBC. Anyway it is interesting to see at my country from other point of view

Great documentary

Missing you my Kazakhstan...

They are a joy.

Great Journalism Simon

I also loved how the small towns of Kazakhstan were featured, because the most authentic experience of another culture is to visit the local communities rather than the tourist sites.

i liked this Kyrgyz interpreter, he is confident, tolerant and clear in his ideas.

This might be biased, but I truly believe that I've just witnessed the best Beatles cover band in existence, hands down.

These STAN vids are very interesting. I was in the USSR in 1986 and 89, but never got as far South as the Stans, mores the pity.

loved the las part haha nice!

Well done! I was in Kazakh a couple years ago. I wouldn't really recommend it for holiday-making, but if that's your ambition I'd suggest you stay on the Almaty side. Brilliant and ballsy work; I look forward to watching the rest.

Borat (Film by Larry Charles) completely misrepresented Kazakhstan..quiet unfair (now I think about it after this documentary)

@vicbonett7772

9 жыл бұрын

borat is not to meant to be taken seriously... ...a film like borat could be made about any country. But i enjoyed this one very much and am very impressed by the Kazak people.They live in an amazing place but unfortunately it is in a dangerous (ie;desirable) part of the world .

My dad lived there (Kazakhstan) and he pretty much described it like this

It's another world out there.

@jonsmith3001

9 жыл бұрын

ерунда, это америка и европа "другой мир"

Would love to visit Central Asia one day

Simon !!!! you rock, excellent coverage. Take me with you once !!! Let's not add caption to local available things

If I ever do get to travle the world, i'd love to visit Kyrgyzstan. It looks like a beautiful country.

I really appreciated this documentary. I think it allowed me to see a part of the world; I would be interested in. But could never afford to travel too. I think Simon Reeve showed me an interesting and admirable people. As far as him being rude? Must be some sort of cultural difference? As I did not pick up on that at all. However the toxic radioactive waste issue is profoundly sad. With that said; I come away from this documentary with the belief that I should be tolerant and respectful of all peoples different from me. And especially those unknown to me.

-One cannot have the public display of ethnography without receiving a barrage of ethnically insulting and ignorant comments.

Completely agree visited kazakhstan this past summer it may have its problem with the goverment but it is one of the safest places i have traveld to and the people are amazing.

This is such a brilliant representation of central Asia portrayed in a superb way with solid direction and journalism! Job well done, Simon!

love the happy ending

cool documentary

wawaweewa, very nice

Kyrgyzstan was an amazing country to visit, this documentary never really showed how beautiful the scenery is. People are very friendly as well. My claim to fame, being interviewed on TV while there during a visit to some tribal games.

Omg, the people in the lab did not have to test the plague on a guinea pig!! I used to have one for a pet. Unbelievable. I happen to appreciate all forms of life...

I just watched the whole thing I feel.........accomplished