I speak Iranian Persian and I have learned to read the cyrillic alphabet so now I can pretty much fully understand written Tajik. 99% of the difference is found in pronunciation. The pronunciation changes are regular and if you know the rules you can pretty much guess how a word is pronunced in the other variety. For example Iranian a becomes Tajik o and Iranian o becomes Tajik u and Iranian e becomes Tajik i and Iranian i becomes Tajik e. Also word that end in e in Iranian Persian end in ä in Tajik and Afghan Persian. Iranians pronunce the letter v as v but in Afghanistan and Tajikistan it's usually pronunced as w. So the word for you (plural) in Iranian is shoma and in Tajik shumo, the word for god in Iranian Khoda and in Tajik Khudo, the word for lion in Iranian shir and Tajik sher and the word for life in Iranian is Zendegi and in Tajik it's Zindägi. Also understanding Tajik news and formal language is really easy. But informal Tajik is sometimes harder to understand. But needles to say Dari in Afghanistan and Tajik in Tajikistan are just dialects of Persian. Because the difference is similar to the difference between English or Spanish dialects.

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I want to compliment and deeply bow to the author of this post about Tajikistan. I am Bulgarian, born in 1964, at a time when America was an example and a dream of many Eastern Europeans, and I guess not only. I managed to live in America for about a year and hang out in the universities with Americans and this experience was shocking for me. On the one hand, admired by the Americans as people, and on the other hand, as a person educated under the Soviet system of education - shocked by their illiteracy. I don't need to describe my own impressions of it because many other people have done it too. But in short, we know how strong the Americans are in history or the geography of our planet. And against this background, such a deep analysis and understanding of the matter, such correct conclusions and lack of any clichés surprised, delighted and fascinated me. The human mind and sometimes genius can apparently grow even in the most hostile environment. Compliments again.

Thank you for making these videos. This history is rarely mentioned in western media. This was an informative and entertaining watch.

I liked that you added some episodes of their daily life between telling their history and sharing facts. They make your video more interesting.

This is so well made, high production & in depth. Criminally underrated channel putting multi million dollar corporations to shame!

Thank you for your good work Alex. While Tajikistan Islamists were getting assistance from Islamic groups inside Afghanistan, the Tajik dominated government in Afghanistan at the time however particularly President Rabbani and Ahmad Shah Massoud encouraged and arguably forced the Tajikistan Islamist leaders to make peace with President Rahmon government. Not surprisingly President Rahmon of Tajikistan like many Tajik elites many times expressed gratitude publicly for Rabbani and Massoud who helped Tajikistan end her civil war.

Can we also appreciate how good the music was throughout? Nearly always a brilliant quality, and always conveyed (what I thought) was the perfect mood. At 9:23 the music gave off this sense of majesty and power that it must have taken to make something out of such a harsh environment, and yet also a somber mood reflecting the tragedy behind it, and a steady sense of decay. Bravo! And a great video!

The Soviet Stans fared far better than Afghanistan and Pakistan.

Thanks for the great info. I have no idea how come you have only 4.54K subscribers. You deserve at least 500K with your material.

My brother worked in Tajikistan in the mid 90,s, with an NGO, he said the majority of the population was Muslim with around 1% of the ruling class being Jewish, he also found Tajikistan was very corrupt, but the ordinary people were just trying to live their lives plus really nice and helpful.

Just discovered your videos. Top class work and presentation. Thank you

how the F does this channel have so few subscribers this is like top tier quality documentary

Thank you 🙏 for this great documentary. We very much appreciate it. I am an Iranian/Afghan Persian but we fully understand the Tajiks it’s just a dialect 👍🏻👌🇷🇺

Incredible depth, analysis and explanation in this gem of a presentation on a little known people and part of the world. I have learnt more in 20 minutes than in the whole of my life about this fragment of Russia which is only spoken of with a quizzical expression on the face. I really enjoyed this video. Thank you.

Very well made. This is great journalism right here. I like that you made a hybrid video of informational material + traveling. Keep up the good work

One of the main reasons, why the Soviet Union fell apart, was that there was a growing sentiment in European Russia, that they didn't want to subsidize the poor Central Asian republics anymore. Russia was struggeling with their own economic problems and some economists in the center thought it was a good idea to just get rid of those republics. After the three small Baltic republics, it was the Russian Federation that seceded first, at the same time as Ukraine and Belarus. In Central Asia the discussion about what path to follow without the Soviet Union had not even really started when this happened.

Fantastic series, really interesting. Thank you so much for sharing. :-) Loved TJ,such an exiting country. Visited a few years ago.❤😊

Great video, I'm going to visit this region and you helped me understand a little bit about it. Keep up the good work Alex and greetings from Poland :⁠-⁠)

The world is fascinating love this from Central Kenya.

superb one. loved it

Thank you for all the background research you shared in this video. Other videos of Tajikistan that I've seen focus primarily on the awesome landscapes and local cuisine. Now I feel much more educated, and look forward to the next video. Five stars!

Really informative

Thank you so much for this video. I have been looking for any information on the Tajik Civil War I can find, and most of it is from US terrorism reports and stuff, so watching this video that gave the perspective from a purely human POV was a breath of fresh air. Thank you.

Fantastic video, very educational.

Daaaaam, I found another hidden gem 💎 in UKposts ✌️💙❤ love your way man keep going please 🙏

These videos are outstanding!

I've watched the first video and this one, the amount of research into the history and population dynamics that is overlooked by those in the West is amazing. UKposts covers every niche! Learnt a lot so far and in the first video, you dispelled the myth I thought was true in that the Soviets 'divided and conquered', when in reality, it's rather Occam's Razor and far more simple in localised power politics. Also, the way you present the content is fantastic as well. As stated by others, you aren't 'in your face' like a lot of travel bloggers and you present when needed and showcase the people and nature when needed but you are always in the background of it with the other thing being the prime thing.

Really love the mixture of travel videos with history! You're on to something here! Subscribed

keep making this great content for us :)

I thought I was among few who almost know everything about our world a bit more or less. Now, I know that I didn't know much of a thing and so many stuff still to be known. Thanks, brother for these sets of videos on unknown (or little known) world of Central Asia. I already subscribed to your channel and hope you bring up more such things for general good of our global society.

Un documental de Tajikistan con un fondo música de música cubana, impresionante

Really amazing videos!

Good job, bro!

Nice blog brother

very good reception video

Wow great video

Very nice indeed , enjoyable and informative. Probably your channel is a late bloomer but for sure it will bloom . Do not give up, you will eventually get the recognition you very much deserve .

The valleys! What a beautiful country!

Tadzhikistan bratskaya strana, obnimayu iz Brazilii, ya uzbechka 🇺🇿🇧🇷

Great informative video about this central asian country 💫💫

That was an amazing video, when I clicked on this I thought you were a UKpostsr with over 1 million subscribers I’m shocked you dont even have 10,000. Great stuff

thank you very much for the information thank you very much I am glad with

BRO 10k subscribers? First video ive seen and i subbed quick. Cant wait for more

U r so underrated!

You must do a documentary on Sunday easter attacks as well ❤

Just came back from two weeks in Tajik and it was pretty trippy seeing videos on YT of streets I had just walked a few days ago. Amazing video, sir! The post-soviet feel was especially strong when I wandered in shops inside bazaars selling old soviet military wears. Gotta ask, how did the food (especially the water) treat you? Did you catch "Tajik tummy"?

please help me research! I have a personal interest in reversing desertification, hydrology and permaculture. I cannot find any information about were the Yaghoobi people were forcibly migrated to (Zafarabad?), but more importantly to me is how they made the land habitable and productive. The video shows at bout 9:00 an example of the arid regions, then cuts to a green region. Please, any key words to search, links, information or whatever will help me understand this land transformation will be greatly appreciated.

Dorood o salam to our Tajik Persian brothers from Iran!

We love tajikistan

Who sings the song at 10:50 of the documentary., "I'm moving on and on, on and on...". Btw, very nice that the author did his own research, that is fieldwork for the short doc. film.

you should link the other videos in the series in the description

When I was a kid in 1980s I saw a printout of GDP per capita. The Latvia where I resided had 2300 rubles, Russia 2100 and Tajikistan 400. I have however been fascinated by the mystery surrounding the Soviet Caucasus and your videos actually shed an actual light on the subject. My dad's mum's father was from there.

Loved the video ! What's the name of the background music used at 16:00 ?

Thank you on behalf of Tajik nation

why the background music in your videos are not Tajik or Iranian?

Hi, Could you please send me the link to the song played in this video at 9:50 ..

The collapse of the USSR has led to wars all around the world and today's war in Ukraine is just one of the many examples. Humanity truly lost but wouldn't know until it was too late.

Thank you very much, it was interesting and informative Some remarks: 1. the Sogdians were the ancestors (among other Iranian peoples) of all Tajiks, not only the Yakhnobis, the difference being only that the Yakhnobis retained their ancient Eastern Iranian language 2. it is not quite correct to speak of Afghan Tajiks or Afghan Uzbeks. The issue of ethnic identity and nationality is very controversial. The creation of a national identity in Afghanistan was never successful and ultimately failed. The majority of Uzbeks and Tajiks do not refer to themselves as Afghans. It would be better and more accurate to speak of Tajiks or Uzbeks from Afghanistan

This is the most important event in world history

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I think you mean the _Tajik Soviet and the Tajikistan Civil War_ which would be a far more accurate title. Besides, there's Tajiks in Afghanistan too and that civil war was already ongoing.

You didn't mention who was (more) responsible for the civilians' casualties?

13:20 After the Sasanids and arab invasion their was also the Samanids country in 892 AD. At that time tajiks would rule their country themselves as well. The leader of Samanids was Ismoil Somoni.

the kmusic is too loud, bro

You didn't mention anything about the Lyuli people.

Please make Uzbekistan and Turkmenistan videos

13: 21 you mean "Samanids" and not Sasanids. Don't you?

I am glad the islamists didn't win the war. I am sad they didn't lose it either. I've noticed that a big chunk of Tadjikistan, named Badakhshan, is mistakenly placed in Afghanistan. This border issue is not mentioned in the video. It comes from the British stealing it from the Russians some 150 years ago. Hopefully this will be fixed someday. All that mountainous area used to be the eastern limit of the ancient Oxus Civilization. It's where the Andronovian (proto-iranian), after colliding with that civilization, and after destroying it, became either Indo-Aryans or Iranians.

Did the Soviets devastate the the Tajik environment? was 70% of the forest destroyed?

Khorasan ❤

Tajikistan's Jupiter Sa ❤️

Спасибо советским героям Таджикистана за общую победу над фашизмом!

Informative documentary: An insight, into the lives of ethnic [Farsi-speaking] Tajik people and their daily struggle against the tide of internal ethnic conflicts - In a country which lacks little or no natural/ economic resources and it is, closed in by inhospitable, mountainous landscapes. As an entity, Tajikistan - most probably will be garbled up by the impacts of the next-door neighbour- Kyrghistan's continuous armed attacks against the country, as well as, the raging internal armed conflicts by local Islamist groups, against the government in Dushanbe - And of course, the safeguarding of China's economic investments in that country. That is unless Iran steps in with considerable political & culturally motivated interventionist investments in that country and saves the Farsi-speaking-Tajiks there! Otherwise, as a country - Tajikistan will disappear into a quagmire of ethnic separatism: That is, armed conflicts by local Islamist groups, against the central government in Dushanbe, on one side, and China's forceful, physical presence in the country to protect its economic investments there.

That thumbnail looks like a Arma 2 screenshot.

its a documentary or a music video. come on man. we wanted to see about tajikistan not to hear music.

Fals completely false. Tajiks in Afghanistan have a very long history and they are on of the oldest inhabitants of Afghanistan.

Did you walk by Orthodox Christian crosses?

No police or ambulance no 💩 ask any Afghan GWOT veterans and they’ll tell you we were the police the ambulance the hospital the road department etc etc and I agree we had to get out of there but it’s much more deadly and violent with out us so I felt we were provided the only stability that country had in half century so not a total loss.

Eranshahr will never forget the transgressions of the russians. Even if takes a nuclear war, we will reduce them back to their scythian ancestors' ways of life.

Dude what even tf is that video at the end

I love every country who helps us and support us like Russia 🇷🇺 and Iran🇮🇷, our allies🥰🤝🙏🏻👍

Tajiks are also Persians. Pars and Tajik are one people. The word Tajik means (the rapist of the crown. The king. Those who have the crown of the kingdom). This word was used by the Persians. And then the word was put over the eastern Persians. the cities of Honze. Gilgite. Wahan. Chatral. Sivat. Kashmir in Pakistan are also Tajiks.. Information about the number of Tajiks in the world. The data provided by the UK special services (UK) in 2019. But in reality and today in 2023 the population and the number of Tajiks in the world. In Afghanistan, twenty -two million Tajik. In Iran, 75 million Tajik. In Uzbekistan, 15 million Tajik. There are six and a half million Tajik in Pakistan. And in other countries, 10 million Tajiks. Tajikistan has 9500000 nine million five hundred thousand Tajik. The total number and population of Tajiks in the world is one hundred and thirty -eight million Tajik. the cities of Honze. Gilgite. Wahan. Chatral. Sivat. Kashmir in Pakistan are also Tajiks.. تاجیک هم پارس هستن . پارس و تاجیک یک مردم است . محنی کلمه تاجیک ( تاجدار ها . پاد شاه ها . کسانی که تاج پادشاهی بر سر دارند ) است . که درقدیم برای پارس ها می گفتن . و بعدأ این کلمه را بالای پارس های شرقی گزاشتن . . مردم شهر هنزه . گلگت . واخان . چترال . سوات . کشمیر در پاکستان هم تاجیک هستن . . معلومات در باره تعداد و شمارش تاجیک ها در جهان . داده ها توسط خدمات ویژه انگلستان در سال 2019 ارائه شده است . اما در واقعیت و امروز در سال ۲۰۲۳ نفوس و تعداد تاجیک ها در افغانستان ۲۲۰۰۰۰۰۰۰ بیست و دو میلیون نفر تاجیک . در ایران ۷۵۰۰۰۰۰۰۰ میلیون نفر تاجیک . در ازبکستان ۱۵۰۰۰۰۰۰۰ پانزده میلیون نفر تاجیک . در پاکستان ۶۵۰۰۰۰۰۰۰ شش و نیم میلیون نفر تاجیک . و در تاجیکستان ۹۵۰۰۰۰۰ نو و نیم میلیون نفر تاجیک .و در دیگر ممالک ۱۰۰۰۰۰۰۰ ده میلیون نفر تاجیک . که در مجموع تعداد و نفوس تاجیک ها ۱۳۸۰۰۰۰۰۰۰۰ یک صد و سی و هشت میلیون نفر تاجیک می شود . Таджики также Это Персы. Парс и Таджик - Это один народ . Слово Таджик означает ( насител Короны. Короля. Те, у кого есть корона королевства). Это слово говарили о персах. А потом слово поставили над восточными персами. Народ городов Хонзе. Гильгет. Вахан. Чатрал. Сиват . Кашмир в Пакистане тоже они Таджики . Информация о количестве Таджиков в мире. Данные, предоставленные спец.служббами Великобританни (UK) в 2019 году. Но в действительности и сегодня в 2023 году население и количество Таджиков в мире . в Афганистане, двадцать два миллиона таджик. В Иране 75 миллионов таджик. В Узбекистане 15 миллионов таджик. В Пакистане шесть с половиной миллиона Таджик. И в других странах 10 миллионов таджиков. В Таджикистане 9500000 девять миллион пять соть тысяч Таджик . Общее количество и население Таджиков в мире составляет сто тридцать восемь миллиона Таджик.

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Why you need big brother? In the form of someone unknown you get slightly better opportunity to sort out better with too many views and too many demands and nobody would be shameless like me to say that give the same amount of money be it the incentive for arms or food or work or education. Still you stand a better chance with people educated and well fed in a past generation with your mindset to be able to reduce your demand to a common factor that a third party would understand

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These people are in danger of being destroyed by their own culture and religion of violence. They need to focus on families more than territory. They need to learn to forgive. They need conservative values of education and work.

U forgot to mention that tajiks didnt flee to afghanistan, Tajiks have been in the entire region for thousands of years. We r also called the eastern iranins or aryans . Yes tajiks that were from tajikistan came to afghanistan, no they didnt turn into afghans. They became afghanistanies! Their ethnic group name still remained tajik.

Wasn't Turkmenistan poorer than Tajikistan? Also there are no "tajiks" in Iran. Tajik is an exonym in countries and regions where native Persian speakers were a minority or ruled by Non-Persian speaking powers.

In comparison to the way American organised it's land and population Russia comes in second best. Imperialism has unintended consequences down the line. Republic all the way. ☘️✊

Still the same

It looks like Asias' Mexico.

Alex thanks for your work❤‍🩹

I was born in dushambe Tajikistan in 1987. To make a long story very short it was such a bloody war fought on the streets. My neighbors that resisted to the sharia law islamists opened fire from his attack and an intense fight broke out. Lasted 4 hours. After he was killed they hung him upside down and left him them for days as a show of what will happen. Many family members died and luckily in 1995 my family thankfully was granted refugee status in the United States

Beautiful country! I missed it ? Did you mention the CCP claiming the Eastern half of the country?

togixton is also tolib

The GOG MAGOG wall has been found in Tajikistan.

Central Asian women are beautiful....there I said it!!!!

its a fact that the Central Asian Republics where among the biggest supporters for the preservation of the Soviet Union during the 1991 referendum (the statistics prove it) because they benefited the most during the Soviet Era while the slavic republics were less enthusiastic for the preservation of the USSR because the Central Asian republics benefited at their expense with resources being dolled out from Moscow to the far flung Non Slavic Republics.......This is Why Boris Yeltsin hated the USSR and fought so hard to Undermine Soviet Sovereignty in an effort to break Russia away from the Soviet Union.

Doing an area study on Tajik from a military-political perspective. Learning so much from this. For anyone watching this, take a look at how Russia created a scenario that is causing the Aral Sea to disappear and destroy the environment. Mind blowing.