IT was for sure the best period in the entire history of Afghanistan, regardless the war going on in some regions... Now, there are more people dying in bomb blasts during peactime in Kabul than during the communist era when the country was in a war. And about the womans role in the society we cannot talk...
Communist Afghanistan was the best chance to create a modern country for them they were never forced many of them willingly and happily took part in building those films
The lost world of Communist Afghanistan is beyond fascinating to me. I hope the people who preserved the archives can publicly release these movies to the public domain.
It doesn't interest you, but it does interest others. Afghanistan is my homeland and the time of the Soviet "occupation" was wonderful. You don't understand this, your woman doesn't wear a veil.
Unfortunately, there is very little to read in English. There are some books in Russian but that's probably about it. Vijay Prashad has a recent interview on here, though, in which he describes some of the barbaric consequences of anticommunism in Afghanistan.
Democratic Republic of Afghanistan: Population is free from exploitation Full employment No homelessness No prostitution Women have rights Secular High literacy Free food Housing a human right Universal healthcare Free education Standing up to your boss and tell him to get bent
Yes and you'd be locked up and likely executed for having any view against the state. So many people's lives turned miserable after the revolution and so many were killed. Amin and the others were bloodthirsty savages.
@@ap.39315 Lol I trust Hafizullah Amin and DRA more than living in Modern Afghanistan under the religious reactionary Taliban that the US and Pakistan created.
Also, just because prostitution is outlawed doesnt mean it doesnt exist. Do you think there's no prostitute in ultra conservative country like pakistan? This is peak tankie cope
زنده باد حزب دموکراتیک خلق افغانستان، روح رهبر کبیر زحمتکشان افغانستان رفیق ببرک کارمل بزرگ و شهید رفیق دکتور نجیب الله شاد و یادش گرامی باد راه مقدس شان ادامه دارد
It wasn't a missed chance it was deliberate attempt by the USA and NATO to make sure that Afghanistan remained in the stone age and subservient to Islamic jihadism.
Billy Meier Back when communism was powerful, they used to say, "Better red than dead." But today, when Americans are the real great power on Earth, the motto is "If you don't want to be America's brother, they'll crack your skull." It's easy to say that terrorism can be fought by force, but the consequences are worth considering. It's easy to say that violence against terrorism is easy to do, but you must consider what happens as a result. As in all places where there is trafficking, war, revolutions and insurrections, etc., the principle is that a counter-attack is done at once, loosely based on the traditional words "As you make me, so do I" and “Whoever sows violence and terror will reap violence and terror!
Totally agree. However, there is an easy solution to terrorism. Make the disenfranchised people middle class. With a middle class income. Though obviously impossible to do without the ability to tax the over 800 Billionaires in the US and more throughout the world, including the over 100 Chinese Billionaires.
Many in the west have managed to remain ignorant of Afghan culture despite the increased tv coverage since 9/11. As someone with a social sciences education, I love peering into the past because so much material culture is being lost as global markets bring products that are simply easier to acquire than making them locally. I pay particular attention to what people wear and love traditional textiles. Rug weaving cultures seem to retain that skill as rugs are exported. Traditional clothing changes much quicker. You can still plenty of salwar kameez but many are mass produced in pakistan. In the last year or so I see more shirts that do not have a western style collar and central buttons. They often have buttons down the side. I don’t know if these are traditional styles returning from a local source or if they are simply new imports. I also see fewer pakols. Are turbans considered to be more wealthy looking and have taken some of the pakol’s popularity? Are the turbans particular to certain ethnic groups? Slight variations for the number of different groups.I don’t see enough variety for that. If any Afghans can better inform me, I would be greatly appreciative.
The whole Taliban and in turn Fundamentalist ideology is so bizarre and unreasonable to me. Why is the cinema banned? Why is music illegal? Why are sports discouraged? Why, outside of strict religious education, are girls/women not allowed to earn an education? During the Taliban's first go-around they made it so that boys/men also had to suffer when it came to getting an education. In regards to education don't they realise that an educated populace makes for a strong country with a robust economy as well as a vibrant cultural life? If anyone could answer the many questions I have I'd be thankful, though I suspect that even then the answers might not raise my feelings and alleviate my fears for the entire Afghan nation....
Are you American? Your country has occupied my Afghanistan for almost 20 years. What questions may still remain here? The Taliban society is like this because it sees support only in it, the population is poorly educated, and therefore sees its support only in the clergy of the mullahs. The Soviets tried to break these chains, these fetters. They almost succeeded if your country did not sponsor the radical Islamist opposition here. Less educated people are easier to manage. That is why the USSR invested a lot of money in education in Afghanistan.
Do not be fooled cause education is a word and therefore a mere opinion or interpretation of a man or woman. What matters kind of quality of man or women will the word describe? As an educated man, I see or have been shown the beauty of a people that are kind and loving. Creative and funny who are blessed with the divine intelligence and culture that like delicate flower softly complements their Creator. A people wise to disguise an act or performance in a way that preserves culture and provides an education from which all can learn a lesson in love and its display of affection by warm and reflection... Con Amor...
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I thought you would stay with me I’m yours and you’re mine, I envy So what I’m gon’ do? I don’t have no clue, ain’t no me without you Oh, here we go, please let me know Off we go, don’t leave me in the cold
my mom would leave in 1979 after that era destruction would come countless young men being kidnapped by communist people countless lives lost the stories i would hear from my grandmother how people if they spoke against the communist party the whole family was taken away and never to be seen again
Guess we know now where the Taliban learned that tactic. What a terrifying way to live, knowing the Goverment can essentially kidnap your whole dang family whenever they feel like it. 😳
Prostitution yeah plenty and Mixing of sexes and a little bit of décolleté just for the youth..the communist were not doing it for modernisation or social transformation but only for their political ideals.
The people don't realize that afghan majority peoples is belong to pashtun ethnicity and there is not a single pashtun in this documentary they always choose a cherry pick meanwhile in rural Afghanistan people were killed torture and kidnapped by cruel communist and they building a big destruction slowly but surely and now the results is in your front.
absolutly not. in italy the best period ever was when there was a strong communist and socialist party. of course communism and socialism adapt for italy: trade open but under regulation. after the destruction of berlin wall italy went to ruin. its now an america maffioso country colony like south america. in sweden too there was a strong socialist party. afghanistan went in ruin by america maffioso country. no doubt about that. finally communist is one of many form of socialism and basic socialism ideology is of national resource cant be privatized. so even gheddafi can be categorized as socialist same fascism same democratic country like sweden or italy after the ww2. for me, communism as closed market is not good, but for certain poor country to avoid money and corrutpion from outside can be good and also a king or dictator can be good: all of them have to take care of population and so has to be socialist to some degree.
@@MWENDA-vv5im Communism vs Democracy,if people find proof that communism can actually work,it would be a trouble to all democratic nations. Their would be **Civil wars**
@@afroz1198 No proof is needed. What proof was there that Democracy worked before the American Revolution? Or that there was proof socialism worked before the Russian Revolution?
communism is essentially Judaism so it's really funny to see non Jewish cultures embrace the ideology and especially Arab and Persian cultures with values antithetical to communism. If nothing else, communism considers traditional family one of its biggest enemies, how could a Pashtu or a Tajik reconcile that with his core values? There had to be a lot of confusion going on.
Embrace science people, try to understand what human beings are made up of, instead of believing in random old man/woman's teachings you have never seen.
Communism is not against traditional Families! Communism is against the Bourgeois family who swap their wives and abuse children. What do you think the working class want? And what do you see the capitalists doing? Yes, "There is a lot of confusion going on". Your confusion! Read the Communist Manifesto again (Or for the first time).
@@meenki347 I have read more than just the manifesto and there's no question, I lived in a communist country, everyone read the Manifesto. Communism aims to create a nationless, borderless, classless, genderless, atheistic world, it's no secret. Terms such as bourgeois have no meaning in the modern world, nor does the term capitalism, there have been as many capitalisms (and socialisms and in-betweens) as there have been iterations. I'm upper middle class and I don't know any wife swappers or people abusing children and if it happens, it's not because of people's bourgeois nature but their degeneracy. End of the day, no one swapped more wives and abused more children than communists.
@@toobalkain I like chatting with people who experienced life in so-called "communist" countries. Thanks for responding. "I don't know any wife swappers or people abusing children" You haven't seen the news in the last few years? As for "communist" countries. There is something strange about your claim to have grown up in a "communist" country. If you really grew up in one of these countries? then you would know that they never claimed to be Communist and all of them quite honestly claimed to be Socialist. For example, the Union of Soviet SOCIALIST Republics, Not Communist republics. And as far as the Communist Manifesto. Marx describes various forms of Reactionary Socialism in the Manifesto. And interestingly, he describes a reactionary socialist ideology that he sarcastically calls, "True" Socialism. How come nobody in these socialist countries noticed this? I'm truly curious. Fact, is no one in the west notices this either. So, I have come to conclusion that it is modernist ideology that blinds people to Marx's own words right in front of their own eyes. Hence, the complete inability of modernists to Deconstruct. Though I do see very clearly how bourgeois wealth will inevitably corrupt children born into wealth. I do have extremely wealthy friends who were born into wealth. And they tell me stories of extreme corruption. And I believe it. In addition, In his chapter on Reactionary Socialism Marx functionally describes modern Europe and American mixed economies, which he called Bourgeois Socialism. So, I agree with Marx that we have graduated to a world wide Socialist mode of production, that will in turn result in a world wide revolution against socialism as well. Just as Feudalism more or less evolved into Capitalism. And Capitalism evolved into Socialism. And so on. Thanks for your critique. It was fun responding. Ta
@@meenki347 true, no country called itself communist, it was supposed to be the end goal, a utopia with no money and such but for practical purposes most people refer to those countries as communist in the sense that this was the guiding philosophy of the regime. I grew up in ex Yugoslavia, which was communism lite compared to the Soviet bloc and I can understand why some people would like it, and why many did like it, it fostered a sense of camaraderie, of social cohesiveness and of sincere personal relationships unstained by greed and selfishness, it had a certain quaint charm to it, but it depended hugely on not having a point of reference, on massive indoctrination and it was unsustainable, when recession set in it was every man for himself like everywhere else and just like in some ways it brought out the best in people, it also brought out the worst. Problem is, central planning doesn't work, not if you want freedom and prosperity and people tend to prefer that to poverty and tyranny. You seem to rely heavily on Marxism in your analyses and while Marx might have gotten some things right, he failed in pretty much all his predictions, economies based on his ideas invariably did terribly and always took a tyranny to enforce such a system. To me Marxism is a lot like its sister psychoanalysis, unfalsifiable pseudoscientific gibberish.
I would prefer to live in secular communist Afghanistan thn in today's Taliban ruled Afghanistan.
I feel like that shouldn’t be considered a hot take
IT was for sure the best period in the entire history of Afghanistan, regardless the war going on in some regions... Now, there are more people dying in bomb blasts during peactime in Kabul than during the communist era when the country was in a war. And about the womans role in the society we cannot talk...
Communist Afghanistan was the best chance to create a modern country for them they were never forced many of them willingly and happily took part in building those films
How about you left your dumb ideology to your own self and leave the world alone ?
You mean monarchy because you know that Afghanistan was making progress under the monarchy
@@MultiRingtail no you mean a republic
@Leo Mate Hafizullah Amin and DRA> Zahir Shah and Kingdom of Afghanistan
I'd rather have radical Islamist than those commies who would have destroyed everything.
The lost world of Communist Afghanistan is beyond fascinating to me. I hope the people who preserved the archives can publicly release these movies to the public domain.
It was just MADE public by this network, genius.
It doesn't interest you, but it does interest others. Afghanistan is my homeland and the time of the Soviet "occupation" was wonderful. You don't understand this, your woman doesn't wear a veil.
It took me two years but I found a lot
Viva la Revolucion...
@@crazybastardo9452You sure honor your name with the amount of nonsense you speak.
Any afghan comrade who can tell me more of this period but through a marxist perspective
revolution
Unfortunately, there is very little to read in English. There are some books in Russian but that's probably about it. Vijay Prashad has a recent interview on here, though, in which he describes some of the barbaric consequences of anticommunism in Afghanistan.
Democratic Republic of Afghanistan:
Population is free from exploitation
Full employment
No homelessness
No prostitution
Women have rights
Secular
High literacy
Free food
Housing a human right
Universal healthcare
Free education
Standing up to your boss and tell him to get bent
the slaughter of hundreds of thousands of civilians
Yes and you'd be locked up and likely executed for having any view against the state. So many people's lives turned miserable after the revolution and so many were killed. Amin and the others were bloodthirsty savages.
@@ap.39315 Lol I trust Hafizullah Amin and DRA more than living in Modern Afghanistan under the religious reactionary Taliban that the US and Pakistan created.
and then the Americans came to support the Islamic extremism to overthrow communism
Also, just because prostitution is outlawed doesnt mean it doesnt exist. Do you think there's no prostitute in ultra conservative country like pakistan? This is peak tankie cope
زنده باد حزب دموکراتیک خلق افغانستان، روح رهبر کبیر زحمتکشان افغانستان رفیق ببرک کارمل بزرگ و شهید رفیق دکتور نجیب الله شاد و یادش گرامی باد راه مقدس شان ادامه دارد
Rip bozo
A missed chance to modernize the country and society. A missed chance for progress for millions of people.
It wasn't a missed chance it was deliberate attempt by the USA and NATO to make sure that Afghanistan remained in the stone age and subservient to Islamic jihadism.
Billy Meier
Back when communism was powerful, they used to say, "Better red than dead." But today, when Americans are the real great power on Earth, the motto is "If you don't want to be America's brother, they'll crack your skull."
It's easy to say that terrorism can be fought by force, but the consequences are worth considering. It's easy to say that violence against terrorism is easy to do, but you must consider what happens as a result. As in all places where there is trafficking, war, revolutions and insurrections, etc., the principle is that a counter-attack is done at once, loosely based on the traditional words "As you make me, so do I" and “Whoever sows violence and terror will reap violence and terror!
Totally agree. However, there is an easy solution to terrorism. Make the disenfranchised people middle class. With a middle class income. Though obviously impossible to do without the ability to tax the over 800 Billionaires in the US and more throughout the world, including the over 100 Chinese Billionaires.
Many in the west have managed to remain ignorant of Afghan culture despite the increased tv coverage since 9/11. As someone with a social sciences education, I love peering into the past because so much material culture is being lost as global markets bring products that are simply easier to acquire than making them locally. I pay particular attention to what people wear and love traditional textiles. Rug weaving cultures seem to retain that skill as rugs are exported. Traditional clothing changes much quicker. You can still plenty of salwar kameez but many are mass produced in pakistan. In the last year or so I see more shirts that do not have a western style collar and central buttons. They often have buttons down the side. I don’t know if these are traditional styles returning from a local source or if they are simply new imports. I also see fewer pakols. Are turbans considered to be more wealthy looking and have taken some of the pakol’s popularity? Are the turbans particular to certain ethnic groups? Slight variations for the number of different groups.I don’t see enough variety for that. If any Afghans can better inform me, I would be greatly appreciative.
Thank you. I have an interest in social science. I didnt know that b4. You opened my eyes.
The whole Taliban and in turn Fundamentalist ideology is so bizarre and unreasonable to me. Why is the cinema banned? Why is music illegal? Why are sports discouraged? Why, outside of strict religious education, are girls/women not allowed to earn an education? During the Taliban's first go-around they made it so that boys/men also had to suffer when it came to getting an education. In regards to education don't they realise that an educated populace makes for a strong country with a robust economy as well as a vibrant cultural life? If anyone could answer the many questions I have I'd be thankful, though I suspect that even then the answers might not raise my feelings and alleviate my fears for the entire Afghan nation....
because pakistan wants to destroy Afghan culture and they supported taliban
Bc the silly religion there
Are you American? Your country has occupied my Afghanistan for almost 20 years. What questions may still remain here?
The Taliban society is like this because it sees support only in it, the population is poorly educated, and therefore sees its support only in the clergy of the mullahs. The Soviets tried to break these chains, these fetters. They almost succeeded if your country did not sponsor the radical Islamist opposition here.
Less educated people are easier to manage. That is why the USSR invested a lot of money in education in Afghanistan.
Do not be fooled cause education is a word and therefore a mere opinion or interpretation of a man or woman. What matters kind of quality of man or women will the word describe? As an educated man, I see or have been shown the beauty of a people that are kind and loving. Creative and funny who are blessed with the divine intelligence and culture that like delicate flower softly complements their Creator. A people wise to disguise an act or performance in a way that preserves culture and provides an education from which all can learn a lesson in love and its display of affection by warm and reflection... Con Amor...
Amazing documentary, all the parts, mashallah
Qué buen documental. La Revolución de Saur me parece un tema bastante interesante.
19:38 The teacher with the big mustache who was lecturing. It reminded me of a memory my father said.😅👍
Long live marxism Leninism 🚩🚩🚩
It ruined the country, afghanistan was at its peak during daud khan presidency.
that is a shame rip communist afghanistan
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UPA make India like Africa.
We don't like them
I mean wtf is this!!!
No need for a trash democracy with upa as the rulers.
What type of pashto are they talking with?
Its very different from KPK pashto.
I thought you would stay with me
I’m yours and you’re mine, I envy
So what I’m gon’ do?
I don’t have no clue, ain’t no me without you
Oh, here we go, please let me know
Off we go, don’t leave me in the cold
my daddy was fired and under house arrest while working with Gulbuddin!!!
my mom would leave in 1979 after that era destruction would come countless young men being kidnapped by communist people countless lives lost the stories i would hear from my grandmother how people if they spoke against the communist party the whole family was taken away and never to be seen again
Guess we know now where the Taliban learned that tactic. What a terrifying way to live, knowing the Goverment can essentially kidnap your whole dang family whenever they feel like it. 😳
Did they have nudity in Afghan movies back then?
no
if they showed james bond movie they would censor like the women body
Yes they did
Some of the Afghan actors did stuff with the soviet women actors
Prostitution yeah plenty and Mixing of sexes and a little bit of décolleté just for the youth..the communist were not doing it for modernisation or social transformation but only for their political ideals.
The people don't realize that afghan majority peoples is belong to pashtun ethnicity and there is not a single pashtun in this documentary they always choose a cherry pick meanwhile in rural Afghanistan people were killed torture and kidnapped by cruel communist and they building a big destruction slowly but surely and now the results is in your front.
The Taliban, the Marxist, what is the difference..., you do what your told.
Does anyone know where the footage of the Afghan army at 1:15?
I showed my dad (former Afghan conscript) and he thinks it could be a movie
@@meatiest1989 was he a conscript in the 1980s?
@@realvelikiman1987 yes, or else I would’ve never commented
@@realvelikiman1987 I had six uncles in the Afghan intelligence agency KHAD, one KIA in 1982 and the other MIA since 1986
@@meatiest1989 I'm guessing they had all stopped working by 1992
When you delete other comment this clearly propaganda movies
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Anything this ideology touches it destroys
Lol what about capitalism that enslaves Humans.
Can you say the same about Taliban
@@Claudia_Ackermann Taliban are amazing alhamdulillah
The Taliban are worse.
absolutly not.
in italy the best period ever was when there was a strong communist and socialist party. of course communism and socialism adapt for italy: trade open but under regulation.
after the destruction of berlin wall italy went to ruin. its now an america maffioso country colony like south america.
in sweden too there was a strong socialist party.
afghanistan went in ruin by america maffioso country. no doubt about that.
finally communist is one of many form of socialism and basic socialism ideology is of national resource cant be privatized. so even gheddafi can be categorized as socialist same fascism same democratic country like sweden or italy after the ww2. for me, communism as closed market is not good, but for certain poor country to avoid money and corrutpion from outside can be good and also a king or dictator can be good: all of them have to take care of population and so has to be socialist to some degree.
So basically Afghanistan's troubles started by Soviet union.
They have to compensate Afghans for every loss till now ,and future !!!
How?
@@MWENDA-vv5im Communism vs Democracy,if people find proof that communism can actually work,it would be a trouble to all democratic nations.
Their would be **Civil wars**
@@MWENDA-vv5im The Soviet Union is gone so, no party to sue for compensation. LoL Might as well sue the Russian monarchy.
@@afroz1198 No proof is needed. What proof was there that Democracy worked before the American Revolution? Or that there was proof socialism worked before the Russian Revolution?
@@meenki347 Communism, democracy and all hybrid versions don't work until everyone understand true meaning of life and cherish peace.
communism is essentially Judaism so it's really funny to see non Jewish cultures embrace the ideology and especially Arab and Persian cultures with values antithetical to communism. If nothing else, communism considers traditional family one of its biggest enemies, how could a Pashtu or a Tajik reconcile that with his core values? There had to be a lot of confusion going on.
Embrace science people, try to understand what human beings are made up of, instead of believing in random old man/woman's teachings you have never seen.
Communism is not against traditional Families! Communism is against the Bourgeois family who swap their wives and abuse children. What do you think the working class want? And what do you see the capitalists doing? Yes, "There is a lot of confusion going on". Your confusion! Read the Communist Manifesto again (Or for the first time).
@@meenki347 I have read more than just the manifesto and there's no question, I lived in a communist country, everyone read the Manifesto. Communism aims to create a nationless, borderless, classless, genderless, atheistic world, it's no secret. Terms such as bourgeois have no meaning in the modern world, nor does the term capitalism, there have been as many capitalisms (and socialisms and in-betweens) as there have been iterations. I'm upper middle class and I don't know any wife swappers or people abusing children and if it happens, it's not because of people's bourgeois nature but their degeneracy. End of the day, no one swapped more wives and abused more children than communists.
@@toobalkain I like chatting with people who experienced life in so-called "communist" countries. Thanks for responding. "I don't know any wife swappers or people abusing children" You haven't seen the news in the last few years? As for "communist" countries. There is something strange about your claim to have grown up in a "communist" country. If you really grew up in one of these countries? then you would know that they never claimed to be Communist and all of them quite honestly claimed to be Socialist. For example, the Union of Soviet SOCIALIST Republics, Not Communist republics. And as far as the Communist Manifesto. Marx describes various forms of Reactionary Socialism in the Manifesto. And interestingly, he describes a reactionary socialist ideology that he sarcastically calls, "True" Socialism. How come nobody in these socialist countries noticed this? I'm truly curious. Fact, is no one in the west notices this either. So, I have come to conclusion that it is modernist ideology that blinds people to Marx's own words right in front of their own eyes. Hence, the complete inability of modernists to Deconstruct. Though I do see very clearly how bourgeois wealth will inevitably corrupt children born into wealth. I do have extremely wealthy friends who were born into wealth. And they tell me stories of extreme corruption. And I believe it. In addition, In his chapter on Reactionary Socialism Marx functionally describes modern Europe and American mixed economies, which he called Bourgeois Socialism. So, I agree with Marx that we have graduated to a world wide Socialist mode of production, that will in turn result in a world wide revolution against socialism as well. Just as Feudalism more or less evolved into Capitalism. And Capitalism evolved into Socialism. And so on. Thanks for your critique. It was fun responding. Ta
@@meenki347 true, no country called itself communist, it was supposed to be the end goal, a utopia with no money and such but for practical purposes most people refer to those countries as communist in the sense that this was the guiding philosophy of the regime. I grew up in ex Yugoslavia, which was communism lite compared to the Soviet bloc and I can understand why some people would like it, and why many did like it, it fostered a sense of camaraderie, of social cohesiveness and of sincere personal relationships unstained by greed and selfishness, it had a certain quaint charm to it, but it depended hugely on not having a point of reference, on massive indoctrination and it was unsustainable, when recession set in it was every man for himself like everywhere else and just like in some ways it brought out the best in people, it also brought out the worst. Problem is, central planning doesn't work, not if you want freedom and prosperity and people tend to prefer that to poverty and tyranny. You seem to rely heavily on Marxism in your analyses and while Marx might have gotten some things right, he failed in pretty much all his predictions, economies based on his ideas invariably did terribly and always took a tyranny to enforce such a system. To me Marxism is a lot like its sister psychoanalysis, unfalsifiable pseudoscientific gibberish.