RE: Not the Midnight Train to Georgia.
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i'm sorry, just commented below from my community account
it's me i spent there 27 years of my life... :-)))))
good memories. and looks like not many things changed since then i'm 31 years not there
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GOT it !! lol cheers @victorbz I loved my journey through the Stans, I would love to be a time traveller and visit these places earlier
envy you
i really dream to visit there but as one who lived here i know all the bad background and see on the happening there without the tourist's glasses.
when i walked in Geneva through some "latino" quarter, my friend, living all his life in Geneva, said me to be careful there and to avoid openly taking images.
If I hadn't heard this, for me these were the regular blocks with the regular restaurants.
knowing is not always helps us :-(
Yes, I have just got hold of a book called "murder in Samarkand" that will be an eye opener. Corruption, child trafficking et al.
I guess there are areas all over the world that are unsafe, the only real opportunity I had to walk the back streets was in Bukara and Khiva.....what a contrast to the tourist bits!
Yes, all the area was very problematic in its' background all the time, and the pick was after the perestroika, when i finished my Army service.
Oh my days, I guess you have dealt with some shit
absolutely right. finally i left the country in 1993 but they took everything - the citizen passport, the penshinie pension money and insurance.
Fuck!
yes, their system always wa the system i was hating from the day i was born.
where are you based now then?
Israel :-)