Far more complex. Lots of countries no access to sea. Take Ethiopia, one of Africa’s powerhouses. Botswana is thriving the most in Southern Africa, and Rwanda is fastest growing in the world. All landlocked.
Any mountain lover should visit Kyrgyzstan. It is literally Switzerland but without fancy houses and tons of tourist infrastructure. Just mountains in their wilderness.
It is also important to note that our oil (Kazakhstan), as well as, 80% of our trade is going through Russia, creating a bottleneck that prevents Central Asia from dictating its own policies on exports. In other words, if Russia deems that Central Asia behaves not in its favour, it can create a trading blockade like it did recently with exporting Kazakh oil to Europe.
They don’t need to block, your country has a pro Russian gladio just like ours has a proamerican one in Turkey. They seem to be against them but it’s just to fool the people.
I would also mention the fact that as Russia controls the caspian oil pipeline (the primary source of Kazakhstan’s income), the foreign policy of Kazakhstan is arguably limited, and, meanwhile we witnessed how that russian bald bastard literally blackmailed us by blocking that pipeline 🫠
I live in Kyrgyzstan and what can I say.... Central Asia, first of all, is not poor but developing. We are trying to be neutral in all respects since we are surrounded by “good” Neighbors so the Influence of Russia and China is quite visible, but the Central Asian authorities still maintain neutrality. Tajikistan is not a Turkic people, they are Persians. Almost all countries are authoritarian, but in Kyrgyzstan, Kazakhstan and Uzbekistan it is better...And there is a problem with water, so with global warming, sometimes disagreements with neighbors. but the people are quite calm and hospitable. And thanks for the video
could you explain a little bit more detail about the damages China did to Kyrgyzstan? China is an evil empire, I dont know why Kyrgzstan still maintain a relationship with them, nothing comes out from China is good, can you give me some facts how China harm your country in particular?
In Kyrgyzstan, they don’t respect their country; on Independence Day, you simply disrupted the performance; I saw it myself and your president was in despair. Your country is a complete mess, especially in the government.
Your president wanted to take away the Tajik land of Vorukh, but all Tajiks stood up to defend their homeland and did not let you achieve your goals. And everything is fine about water in Tajikistan.
@@Prororo What makes you think so? Not to discredit your point, but I am just curious. You see as far as I know Soviet meddling in the region ended Statehood of my country back then. Than there was collectivisation efforts which lead to death or migration of roughly 30% of my countries population. Afterwards there was forced deportations and Virgin land project in my country, which lead to my countries population being 50% of foreign nationality at the time of our independence. Those are some of the things that I remember of the hand, but there were dozen of other questionable projects that Soviets engaged in the CA.
As a Kazakh, I think the reason is because our territory is steppe, more than half of it, and we have no access to the sea, which makes sea trade with traders impossible
This is ridicilous. Only 30% of Kazakhstan's terrain is steppe, rest is desert and semi desert. Steppes can be used for cattle breeding and agriculture. Ukraine's terrain is 40% steppe and they gain tens of billion dollars from the export of agricultural products. Central Asia's problems are: 1) Lack of scientific-technical progress. 2) High corruption which makes it impossible even to finish LRT project in Astana... by the way each km of LRT now costs almost 4 times of Musk's Hyperloop... 3) Absence of advanced industries. 4) Lack of skilled high-qualified labour force. 5) Mediocre tertiary education. I did not mention access to the world ocean (or sea as people prefer to say) because it was already mentioned by everyone here.
Central Asia would prosper on land trade which is growing business. Turkic Union would be best solution on trade Westwards via Turkey. Eastwards there isn't Sea anywhere near and detouring Eastwards by Sea would be outright useless.
Also, especially Kazakhstan has massive rail and road connection Eastwards to China and their ports. Pretty much Central Asia being geographically Middle of continent means Sea trade is on most efforts costly and outright useless effort to do.
@@sinicixno thank you it is ok just staying as a aryan origin , this region was populated by iranic people before mongols and turks came , and tajiks (persians) are biggest ethnic group in thos region and tajikistan and samarkand bukhara and other cities are all tajiks ,
central asia was ruled by many Iranic empires and they rulded central asia before turkic people came from steps of khazakhstan to south, tajiks trace back thier orgin to sammanid empire. Ismail somani is know as father of the nation . and don't forget the fact that there are 12 million tajiks in Uzbekstan and even more living in Aghanistan all speaking a version of persain called : Dari and tajiki @@sinicix
Never thought that someone from English speaking side of the internet could so awesomely sum up the problems that plagues our region (I'm from Kazakhstan). Big respect for such short yet very good and detailed description of the problem. The best quote regarding our region I've ever heard was from my friend that decided to move to Japan and switch citizenship to it after the elections of 2nd president. The quote was "Cursed region" - Too much problems(geographical, infrastructural, cultural, sociological, political) - Too much morons in government(30 years of stealing from its people and it still do not satisfy their greed, absolutely insane) - Very awesome neighbours(one of them is monkey with nukes threatening to conquer everything again and destroy half of the world, another one doesn't even need to threaten cause they are 2nd economy of the world which also has nukes, another ones bunch of religious zealots who fights between each other and claim to developing nuke) - People are too tired and just too busy with economical survivability to event think about political changes(the only ones who are working on that are Kyrgyzs, absolute champions of revolutions of the region and the only ones whose president are actually changing, and that cost them with too big economical instability. Turkmenistan is straight up dictatorships, local North Korea I would say. Rest of them are autocracy trying to balance between various political systems). Kinda hard to think about democratic elections and other politics involved things when your objective is to find money for your family in order to survive At least from KZ perspective, I see some changes and I want to believe into bright future, but with everything in summary, even if that bright future will come, I think it will take us 2 generation to actually reach that lol
I don't want to seem rude, but if you know the map and know more or less what the political systems of Russia, China, Iran and Afghanistan are, this knowledge comes to mind, and additional information only complements it.
Stay strong, nothing is forever, things will improve. Best wishes from Romania! We just need revolutions, protests, freedom and solidarity movements once in a while
You've described everything pretty well) I'm from Kyrgyzstan. The only thing I have to add is that unfortunately we have authoritarian regime now too( it's even worse. Your president is at least well-educated diplomat irrespective of his ties to Nazarbayev's time and has knowledge of economic policy. On the contrary, we have the worst establishment ever: fully corrupt and really stupid people in government. Any way, the region will get it's time to prosper:)
As someone who lived in Central Asia for 12 years I can say this is fairly accurate but overly pessimistic. Things are bad but nearly as bleak as this video made it sound.
@@Polska_Editswho are you hqve you ever seen tajik , or been in central asia, do you know deefrence between turkic people and iranic , tajiks havent inflenced by mongols or some poor turks 😂😂😂, turks are jist like mongols who came from altai region jist nomad people jist asiatic people with narrow eye come to tajikistan and uzbekistan , tajiks are dominant ethnic group in central asia by keeping their origin culture , tajiks are not some asiatic and never influenced , they have influence on turkic people like uzbeks they look 80 percent tajik but claim to be some asiatic turk😂😂😂😂
Im an Uzbek and i live in Uzbekistan. But i don't think that our citizens are so poor instead we are doing well i guess. When it comes to energy production, in 2024,Uzbekistan is producing enough energy for population and 30% of this is renewable energy
In which part exactly? Its really bad outside of the capital. By poor they don’t mean you’re homeless or dirty like in some countries. Can we get gas, oil, electricity continuously without pauses? Unfortunately we can’t. Even in some parts of Tashkent. The education, the gov is corrupt. That’s what we call poor.
I’m glad to have stumbled onto your page. The analysis of the situation in central asia is very on point (with minor issues like Tajikistan not being a Turkic country, but Persian-speaking). I am from Azerbaijan and you have summarized the good as well as the bad of the Soviet era in a very clear and accurate manner. Thank you!
Tajiks are so mixed up with turkic people that it is really difficult to tell how much persian and how much turkic they are. Believe me, language can be misleading when ot comes to identifying ethnicity of tajiks
Don't be too glad, this is an AI made channel, one of many Kyle Hill has warned us about. They are pushing videos like hot cakes. Judging by the registration date, they are part of information war in Ukraine.
@@parvizhamidov1078 Just because they are neighbors with Turks doesn't make them Turkic. Also Tajiks don't identify themselves as Turkic but rather Persian. Another factor for nationality is appearance and Tajiks are easily distinguishable from Central Asian Turks.
@@parvizhamidov1078there were no others in CA except tajiks after the Mongolian came they inherited most of traditions, culture, widows, they created a new decedents Uzbek, Kyrgiz, Kazakh, etc
@@faridunmuqimi1404 some turkic tribes might have migrated or had been living even before Mongol invasion and og'uz turks were native to CA. I don't know where you all found these misinterpreted fake history stories, but it doesn't do good neither of you to spread false information. The term tajik is just a small branch of persian ethnicities, but you are trying to steal the whole persian history 😂 that's so funny level of brainwashed
I'm from Uzbekistan and here's what can i say about this video. The main approach to explain the region is too much inspired by international relations and so called "great powers game", leaving too little space for the agency of the local governments and elites. Yes, external power relations played significant role in the shaping the current state of affairs in the region, but the countries themselves weren't without agency either. Read for example the book "Decolonising Central Asian International relations: Beyond Empires" by Timur Dadabaev, 2021.
These type of channels always do the same. It's like they don't consider the people living within these countries to be people at all. They're all little pieces in the international chess game.
It's really interesting that external powers use our resources for their own benefit. For example Lukoil is the russian oil refinery company that takes tons of percentages of oil by so called "Making service of refining oil with highest technologies". But why do we have not brught such technologies? However we have an exact answer why, it would be an obstacle for Putin and his friends from getting rich. (I am from Tashkent tho)
@@Sturmov1 Same reason USA doesn't allow selling semiconductor technology. Why the fuck would Russia sell you technology at no benefit to itself? Its no longer USSR, where soviet republics were part of the same country. Want technology? develop it yourself. More than that, there is literally no country on earth that would allow selling strategic technology, only trade it for something of value, like how last year Russia traded nuclear sub tech to Chinese for their swarm software.
@@user-my5bx3mc5q You know you so funny. You know countries like these are getting rich at the expense of others. And I know that, in part of their intention there is nothing about selling technology. As an international student I study engineering in Germany. As you open your blind eyes wider you can see that I wrote, we have to bring techs, not buy them. What I mean is, me myself doing a lot of research to pursue this target.
@@user-my5bx3mc5q And bro, how we suppose to develop techs on our own, if that countries taking our resources (на халяву). So if you try to use your russian brain a bit, by telling me to develop it by ourselves is like reinventing a bicycle.
@@Sunlai_zhfighting over a technicality, the Russian empire was Russia, even during ww1 it was simply referred to as Russia and its army „the Russian army“/„the Russians“
@@user-xz3mr9oy7n Russian Empire is an Empire title of Russia. Similarly to British Empire being Empire title of England and French Empire as title of France. It is a same country, it just refers to political development and monarchy.
Too low population. If Kazakhstan had 65M people instead of 19 it would be a lot more relevant Also central asia is not "extremely poor" like you mentioned about 60 times in the video. Kazakhstan is doing pretty good, Turkmenistan-Uzbekitan-Kirghizstan are developing countries and Tajikistan is third world
I agree. The issue here is not poverty, but corrupt leaders and populations that somehow doesn't stand up to them. When they do, this region will prosper quickly. The research also forgot to mention the Turkic Council (the "EU" of these countries, which has a great potential).
Maybe if in the future we invented like a super train where you can send huge amounts of cargo more quickly than ships, then central asia could become the center of silk road again
@@smokedwater1325while it is true in some part,by innovating the train,those regions can finally connect with the world-while by ship it is impossible.Trains are vital in landlocked countries.
Hope Kazakhstan is doing alright, its really cold here in Arkansas! My buddy did a report on y'all in the 8th grade and we both got really interested in the region for awhile
@@501lilspoon It's nice to hear! Visit our country in the future, we will be glad to have guests from different countries. I believe that Our country will be one of top-30 or 50 developed countries in the world! Thank you for your interest in Kazakhstan!))))
Personally from Kazakhstan, dude just want to say thank you for bringing up this topic, best sum up of all big issues surrounding central Asia. I mean really i've learned so much about our neighbor problems that i wasn't aware of.
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As a Kyrgyz, I will say that the Kyrgyz SSR was a much more developed and civilized country than the current Kyrgyzstan. the level of industrialization was at another level. Yes, there were shortcomings from the Soviet government, but their contribution was also enormous. After the collapse of the USSR, all plants and factories in Kyrgyzstan were closed, we produce little. There is huge corruption and tribalism in the country. it's about us. There haven't been good managers since 1991.
Actually the same goes to all Soviet countries, all plants and factories were closed because they couldn't compete with other countries, products were not that good quality. Industrialization now is better and exporting to other countries, problem is shipping, Kyrgyzstan is landlocked country. The roots of corruption began in USSR, people in power had high privilege like nowadays in North Korea. More civilized? All post Soviet countries went through 90's when criminal was on high level and step by step putting things in order. All you say is Russian propaganda, Russian chauvinists love to say "you're inferior without us, you all owe to us".
@@elbeers50 bro. I know about Russian chauvinists and I don’t like them. I’m just saying what I see. I’m live there. The level of education is much lower than before.
Какие страшные вещи говоришь. СССР оказывается пытался развивать свои регионы, а то кроме голодоморов, грабежей и ГУЛАГов о ней больше ничего не услышишь. А так да, эпоха либерализации экономики имеет свою цену - просто не каждому гарантирован успех.
@@urarti7049не очень то и пытался развивать совок Среднюю Азию, самым отсталым регионом был. И развивали только те места где русские проживали, на заводах работали одни русские для этого и создавали, крупные заводы появились, а точнее эвакуировали с европейской части в среднюю азию во время войны в 1940-х
Dude, where are you from anyway? In your country you think that Kyrgyzstan and Tajikistan are both one country? Dude Tajikistan is a separate and independent country, Kyrgyzstan too!
Greetings from Turkiye, I hope the future of the Turkic peoples will be rich and prosperous. Our compatriots in our fatherlands are the light of our eyes. We will reach good days with hope, peace and hard work.
that is not true iguess we are living good for exapmle i live in Uzbekistan the goverment informed aboout monthly wage in the citties they are good most of them like tahsken andijan except qaraqalpagistan others earning more than 400$ per month tashken over 800$ @@tasbykekerey1203
Uzbekistan is not poor. Most urban population have somewhat decent standard of living. Plus patriarchal system in the region mitigates effects of poverty, as you can't kick your relatives from your home and you're obliged to help them selflessly. Otherwise you'll be ostracized by your extended family.
Uzbekistan could be much richer. The people of these republics need to stand up and demand transparency, rule of law from their otocratic leaders. They still haven't woken up, which is understandable, however, to prosper as modern nations they need to learn to demand. They are the most secular, educated and open-minded people in the Islamic geography, so they have huge potentials. But as I said, they need to wake up.
Well researched video. I'm Qazaq from Qazaqistan. The region has a lot of potential, but it is run by oligarchs with little regard for the people they serve. The oil economy is the only thing keeping us afloat. The rest of the economy is dependent on Russian imports, which why we keep losing each time the Ruble plummets. Not to mention all the language problems that the government is ignoring. People have to learn Russian to get a job, the Russians coming here since 2022 get all the good jobs without effort, and now we Qazaqs can't have a mind of our own because most of us aren't speaking the language. There was so much coverage of and support for Palestine this year, yet none of those people cared about geographically closer issues like the Uyğırs. Why? Because the Russian speaking media they consume isn't interested in covering what concerns our own region, but rather what concerns Russia. A lot of our internet infrastructure is dependent on Moscow too. Ask where Google, Sony and the like operate from. It feels like a perpetual prison because the legislative bodies can't bother protecting our sovereignty. There should be no issues getting a job or services speaking the one and only national language.
First time seeing a person from Kazahstan writing their country name like you did. As a ukrainian living abroad because of the war i hope you will not have a war with Russia and will have a strong a unique culture and an independent state. Казахи - молодцы и удачи вам!
@@user-mk1zu1pu2dОн так написал, потому, что на казахском, в латинской орфографии, название страны пишется так. Тем не менее, официальное название - Kazakhstan. Может, то, как он написал тоже когда-нибудь станет официальным, например, если Кз. перейдёт на латиницу.
I wonder what's your opinion of China though? Did you have any personal dealing with the Chinese? Because I assume Kazakstan's economy is more depandent on China?
i had a roommate in collage from Kyrgyzstan and the reason he gave me besides the usual government/people stuff like corruption and skill level was the fact that its steppe, filled to the brim with heavy forests and surprisingly aired. in other words not only did it have its own country issues, landlocked with little water, and its a post soviot union country but just working there is hard as theirs not actually that much usable land in a place that's almost all land do to their small population.
Kyrgyzstan is a mountainous country*. We have enough water for us, but the problem is that we have to share our water with Kazakhstan or else they're blocking the borders. Thankfully, China is investing a lot of money on the Silk Road project so we can stop sharing our precious water with people in Kazakh steppes. Everything else is true, unfortunately😢
As an international relations student I want to thank you for showing reasons why our states are in this tough situation. Thank you for your efforts and the video! With love from Kyrgyzstan
5:55 The Soviet Union didn't exist in the 19th century. Overall this is an interesting video on a topic that is rarely covered, but mistakes like that (and the numerous mispronunciations and misspellings) are a bit of a let down and make the whole video seem cheaply made or rushed.
As a Central Asian (from Kazakhstan), our countries are absolutely not "extremely poor" as you said so many times. Kazakhstan is upper middle-income economy, Uzbekistan is a rapidly developing country. Only Tajikistan and Kyrgyzstan are poor, but not extremely. In most cities people have decent standard of living comparible to Eastern Europe levels. This video exaggerates our problems, yet says almost nothing about our success. Also many inaccuracies: for example you say Tajiks are turkic, while they are in fact persian. Also, you say all cities were built during the Silk Road times, while showing footage of our capital Astana, which is a very modern city built in 1990s-2000s
I really like the word “colonised” in regards of what soviets and imperialist Russia did. Small note: the borders were not the nationalities per se, it was similar to what the British did. Divide the map, mostly randomly but also so that close or same ethnicities that are too dangerous will end up in different regions. For example how Tatarstan is separate from other Turkic states.
Tatarstan was conquered during the Tsarist Russia in 1552 and at that time Russia was far from being called an empire. Only 100 years ago, in 1480, it was freed from the Mongol yoke.
@@dwishs "...Tsarist Russia in 1552 ... 100 years ago, in 1480, it was freed from the Mongol yoke." english: You should say, 100 years BEFORE, that would be 1452. 100 years ago, means 1924, 100 years before now. And, a century before, that's less exact, would mean maybe 1440 through 1470. Or, "seven decades before", means 1482, give or take a few years.
As a European, I always found this whole region fascinating. I want to come as a tourist, which cities would great to visit for a first time visitior? I was thinking Samarkand, because its famous. what about food and nightlife, the clubs, museums? Im sure this region will prosper!🎉
you can make a big tour of Uzbekistan by first visiting the largest city in Central Asia, Tashkent, then to the world-famous Samarkand, then to Bukhara, Khiva and generally throughout Khorezm if you want to get acquainted with Zoroastrianism, and lastly you can see the dying sea with your own eyes (aral sea)
I travelled Central Asia this year and I wish I had more time in Uzbekistan, I spent most my time in Kazakhstan and visited the two biggest cities; Almaty and Astana. I also went to Karagandy which was a pleasant city and went camping in the south. Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan was a surprising city in terms of nightlife for me as it was really good comparative to its size.
Central Asia has great potential, which is limited by the influence of the three giants. Iran does not play a big role in these countries, but the United States does. If you want to visit this region, here are the cities you must visit: Tashkent, Almaty, Samarkand, Dushanbe, Bishkek, Ashgabat, Astana, Turkestan, Taraz. U can read the story of how the United States together with the dictator from Kazakhstan, stole all the oil from people.
@@basties-_-3880 US is the largest oil producer but somehow "stole" all the oil from a landlocked country in between their 2 biggest rivals? Either that's bullshit or those countries are so terribly weak that even from the other side of the world they lose to America LOL. I just love how certain nations talk about how strong and mighty they are but also complain that all their problems are apparently caused by the CIA/West/whoever is the current scapegoat.
As a Uzbek our country developed enough compare other Central Asia countries. We have a lot of source opportunity firstly teenagers Uzbekistan the most high populated country in central asia this have a positive impact of this country future. I believe.
Сначала посмотри на Казахстан. Казахи не едут в Узбекистан и не работают на стройке, а сколько узбеков приезжают в Казахстан и работают в стройке. Казахстан - самая развитая страна в Центральной Азии
5:37 "The 5 major ethnicities from largest to smallest all of whom are considered Turkic..." - Tajik is not Turkic, but rather close to Farsi/Iranians. Also at 3:28 "Altai" is pronounced as it's written, not "atlai".
Out of the Central Asian countries, Turkmenistan is the most fascinating place. When Turkmenistan declared its independence, its leader was Saparmurat Niyazov aka Turkmenbashi or "Leader of the Turkmen" and he was quite the character. He changed the coat of arms to include his pet horse, he renamed a city after himself, closed hospitals outside Ashgabat to force rural people to visit, he spent the country's natural gas money on fancy marble buildings in Ashgabat, and he made people read his book called the Ruhnama. The Ruhnama was his book of opinions that all had to agree with. If you want to drive, you had to pass a test on the Ruhnama. He even renamed the months of the year, like one after his mother and of course, the Ruhnama. Did I mention he ALSO had a golden statue of himself that rotated so that it would ALWAYS face the Sun, to symbolize that his age was the golden age? And if that wasn't enough, the guy that came after him was a dentist who was quite obsessed with the Akhal-Teke horse breed, Gurbanguly Berdimuhamedow. He not only continued with the marble buildings and golden statues (like one of himself on horseback), but he was a leader obsessed with winning Guinness World Records, like the largest indoor Ferris wheel and the largest architectural star. When there was a rumor that he died in 2019, he did donuts around a burning crater to prove he was alive. When he stepped down in 2022, his son Serdar took over.
There some corrections. Tajikistan is not Turk country, it is Persian. Second, uranium was mostly mined in Kyrgyzstan which is traceable by the amount of uranium left sites
In terms of nationality he means, I believe. Of course, Iran is officialy a muslim (shia) country and Tajiks are muslims (sunnis). However, both nations are muslims. That is a little difference in terms of religion but both nations speak the same language with different dialects, have the same culture and the same history. Tajiks branch from Persian ethnicity. So, his comment makes sense @@EmilRadsky-ll8kx
As an Uzbek, I need to mention that our biggest problem is the lack of skilled people. In every area, we have struggled with this. Also, I mention that every country's first leaders saw enemies of each other and played stupid political games. But thanks to god, nowadays our leaders meet each other every year and solve each other's problems together. Recently, I read that Kyrgyzstan will help Uzbekistan with the water problem a bit.
LACK of skilled people? Bro we ARE SKILLED ENOUGH. but those skilled people you or our goverment wants WILL NEVER EVER, EVER work for government because of HAVING NO RIGHT, and less salary. WE have a lot of businessman and women and other skilled people wondering around in foreign countries. BECAUSE THEY ARE CALUED There , here their value equals to how much? 3mln sums?)))
yeah, barbarian Soviets rushed into underdeveloped steppe and left industrial cities, universities, libraries after themselves. Also, those bad Soviets developed local culture and languages (korenization). Stupid Soviets educated the locals and literacy rate was the sky high since the 1930s. I agree, it's s much better to produce only cotton and uneducated workforce for other countries these days instead of advanced electronic goods 40 years ago. This region is a dead-end geographically speaking, the closest big city is about 3000 km, no sea access, constant ethnic tensions and problems. Add here corruption and tribal mentality and you'll get the cocktail. Probably with One Belt initiative it will change but it's a long process.
Communism wasn’t the problem,but the collapse of it. Rather,geographically speaking,it is almost impossible for them to connect with the world,mountains everywhere and no sea.😢
Bro, the only thing that the video says about the Soviet Union is that it fucked up with the idea of sowing the steppe (half of the sown lands were eroded, and the other half brought less food than expected). And the fact that the collapse of the Soviet Union seriously fucked up Central Asia (in fairness, all post-soviet countries of the 90s were still shit)
White man's burden Russians style. It's ironic that the Russians never view themselves as typical colonizers while they think and behave exactly like the typical colonizers do.
I don’t understand how the UAE and South Korea and Singapore and especially Finland (which fought for its independence) are rich who were not connected to the USSR, but those who were connected to the USSR Eastern Europe
as a kazakh, I fully agree with author`s opinion. Moreover, the one of the main reason of not developing of Central Asia, Especially Kazakshtan is the youngest generation are not passioned about knowledge and studying. Corruption is everywhere starting from the local kindergarten but the main problem is young people don`t get high-quality education and they`re not passioned about to.
You are so wrong, young people here are very ambitious and fierceful just like in every other developing country because of the/thanks to the inferiority complex. In fact it's the opposite - the young generation of the first world countries are the most inert ones and thus they collect all the talent and hard work from everywhere around the world, especially from South/South East Asia
you are SO wrong about younger generation. In fact they are the most educated ones in Kazakhstan. Every year so many Kazakh students get into top universities of the world like Harvard (and no they're not rich kids but regular kazakhs with regular families.) You can find smart Kazakh youth everywhere around the world doin extraordinary job. The problem is the older generation and government. There is a reason why so many pf them leave and never return to Kazakhstan. Yall don't listen to them nor do you give them any opportunities. Don't ever blame them for anything before you look at students of NIS, phizmat and KTL or at least have a talk with them. They are creating robots and making new discoveries. It's not their fault that the old fucks overlook them while the Westerner's don't
I don’t agree with your point ,maybe your right but ,you gotto consider that they also want to change that structure but don’t have hope ,and confidence about their future,because they know that if they want to be president or minister they won’t be cause ,they will probably put their people when it’s about choosing they won’t pick that passioned and intelligent youth rather than their relatives.So new generation lost their hope and faith for their future
Kyrgyz citizen right here. Here are my thoughts on this problem from major to minor: - Corruption. It's almost everywhere - Nepotism. Our culture loves that so much! relative > talented man (small and medium enterprises, also government) - Illiteracy among people. - Lack of inclusive institutions - Bad investment climate since lack of inclusive institutions. - Landlocked country, low level of industrialization - Relatively small nation - Huge dependence on import and remittances - At some point external influence from russians (imo as far as we get benefits from the partnership we should be okay with that). Revolution comes from evolution of every human being. I think we can do much better.
You can blame Stalin for this. He drew the borders *with the intent of causing conflict* between the peoples of these nations should they ever think about gaining independence from the Soviet Union. Since the Soviet Union collapsed, they still have the same borders as they did before; the problem here should be obvious.
Well, it doesn’t matter. The russkies colonized the region and then after some time they established that “union”. The USSRs ideology was based on the russki tsars. So is Putin’s. Nothing is changed.
As a person who lives in Central Asia in Kazakhstan I can say that water is the most important problem in this area. Especially for Kazakhstan. Because we don't have any rivers that starts in our lands
I Googled this because I have a classmate who's Kazakh, and it made me wonder why we hardly hear anything from these countries. It makes a bit more sense now but it's kinda sad.
They can make Asian version of sea - river - sea connection like in Europe Northerm Sea - Rhine - Maine - Danube - Black Sea. But across Iran - Afganistan and Iran - Pakistan border to Gulf of Oman/Arabian Sea and across Russian - Azerbzaijan, Russian - Georgian border to Black Sea.
At 5:35 there is a mistake: the Tajiks are not Turkic at all, but are an Iranic people related to the Persians. They fit into the Central Asian categorisation because they were conquered by the Russian Empire and from there on they had the same influences as their neighbouring Turkic peoples, but otherwise they are related to most Afghans and Persians. P.S. Still, it is a well-made video.
3:28 Altai mountain range. Not Atlai 5:38 Neither Tajikistan nor Tajiks are considered Turkic. Speaking of ethnicity and language, they have somewhat more Persian origin and background. However, the country remains in the geopolitical area of Central Asia, sharing similar politics, culture and history.
The narrator forgot to tell us why Central Asia was colonized by Russian Empire in the first place. It was a race for influence against the British Empire. Brits controlled India and seeked to expand north.
sure. every superpower in the world always competed and will continue to compete against eachother forever. India was colonised by the British. Central Asia was colonised by the Russians. Tibet and Vietnam was colonised by the Chinese
@@LevisH21 Incorrect comparison. Colonisation happens when the occupied territory and its resources and masses are exploited to benefit the colonising power. So yes India was a colony of Britain because when the British arrived in India, it had 25% share in global economy. And when they left in 1947 India's share in global economy was down to 1-2% and India was at it's lowest in all of it's thousands of years old history. On the other hand Soviets developed infrastructure and facilities in these Central Asian -stan countries. And in the case of Tiber Autonomous Region it has seen the best time in all of it's history under the Chinese rule.
@@thecomment9489You fail to account that the reason the Indias portion of the GDP had fallen was because other nations GDP had rissen. The US was a super power with an enourmous portion of global GDP, while the US didn't exist by the time India became a british colony. A hundred dollars from a pile of a thousand is 10% and a hundred dollars from a pile of ten thousand is 1%. But it's still 100 dollars. And look at which former colonies prospers, every single russian colony is still a developing country, while several of britains are among the best in the world.
@@Mukation //You fail to account that the reason the Indias portion of the GDP had fallen was because other nations GDP had rissen.// Look how a low rate Westoid trying to brainwash me and to somehow prove that the Brits were saints. Yes that could be one reason but why did India's share not rise at at least remained at that level? It is because when a few million people keep dying every few years because of deliberately created famines it is difficult to raise or evne maintain the existing level, right? And the unlawful and horrendous taxes were imposed and all attempts were made to destroy the Indian manufacturing the result was what it was in 1947. And all the Central Asian -stans were in much better position in 1991 at the time of the collapse of the USSR than any of the former British colonies ever were at the time of their independences.
@@LevisH21a northern Chinese here, Vietnam and other regions of China share the same central government's time, which is thousands of years longer than many regions in northern China, such as the northern region where I am located, although within the Great Wall. Get rid of the historical perspective that the West has instilled in you. This is called unity and division. It's not colonialism.
Ocean access is critical for independent countries. Even a cold-water port is better than no port. Its what driving Ethiopia's decisions, and etc. That region has traditionally been under the influence of other countries, Persia, CHina, Russia, and etc. It has rarely had its own sovreignty.
The part about Altai mountains sounds botched up. It's not located in the South-East, and obviously doesn't extend to Middle East. You probably mixed it up with Alatau mountains which is a part of the Tian Shan mountain range in the South Eastern Kazakhstan and a large part of Kyrgyzstan
Russia has the strongest levers of pressure on Kazakhstan, these are military bases and training grounds in Baikonur, Sary Shagan, Priozersk where there are at least 10,000 - 20,000 Russian troops. In Baikonur there may still be Russian nuclear weapons there. All air defense of Kazakhstan is controlled by Russia under the pretext of the CSTO. 80% of oil goes through the Novorossiysk port, through the CPC. At the top of power in Kazakhstan there are simply agents of the KGB, FSB... In the event of war, there is nothing to fight with, all military equipment is old trash, not long ago large ammunition depots in Kazakhstan were deliberately blown up. The army is full of traitors, 90% of the generals are graduates of the Russian Military Academy, with Soviet and pro-Russian thinking and worldview. So, until Kazakhstan gets rid of Russian military bases and training grounds, from the dependence of the pipeline through Russia, from the KGB and FSB agents in power, nothing will change. ☝️😔🇰🇿
The silk road time was unique, and therefore the rise of central Asia eas unique. And you quite well described the reasons why the same story won't be happen in foreseeable future. But these countries could gain more from better economic and management.
The USSR didn't exist in the 19th century but rather the 20th century. The October Revolution happened in 1917 and the USSR was created in 1922. It's interesting to note that during the time of the Soviet Union, while the Central Asian SSRs were the poorest (the Tajik SSR was the poorest), the most prosperous (besides of course the Russian SSR) were the Baltics! They still faced challenges of course though. The shrinking of the Aral Sea isn't the only bad ecological thing that the Soviets did in Central Asia. There's also the Darvaza crater or the Door to Hell in Turkmenistan. The crater was created in 1971 during a Soviet drilling accident that hit a gas cavern, causing the drilling rig to fall in and the earth to collapse underneath it. To prevent the dangerous fumes from spreading into nearby settlements, the Soviets decided to burn off the gas by setting it on fire. They thought that the fire would burn off in a few weeks...key words: they thought. So it's been burning for decades, but the government wants to eventually extinguish it because of its effects on the environment and said nearby settlements. The crater is located in the Karakum, which makes up most of Turkmenistan. Within the Turkmen people living in the Karakum, there are five major tribes, Teke, Yomud, Saryq, Çowdur, and Ärsary. These tribes are represented on Turkmenistan's flag with each tribe's traditional carpet design.
I am from Uzbekistan and as a citizen of this country, I can definitely say that there are a lot of wrong facts not only about Uzbekistan but about other Central Asian countries too. We have quite a modern system of infrastructure
modern system of infrastructure? come oon! bro I did not have eletrcity whole month in 2023 and cutting it is usual even in ordinary days I think you dont live in Uzbekistan
Great pronunciation by the way (except for Altay, not Atlai). Great content, very accurate. Minor correction - Tajik language does not belong to Turkic group. We are poor, but being away from world ocean has its perks. Our land is not worthy of the efforts required to support great power presence in this region. So our land is dear only to us, the locals. Great work!
Don't know if putting the Northern Alliance in power counts as "ignorance", sounds more like a calculated decision to reward allies and ensure loyal governance to me.
The reason is mostly political corruption and not geography. Because you have countries like Switzerland, Luxembourg, Lietchtenstein, Czechia, and Austria that are landlocked with no resources nor arable land for the most part, yet they are pretty wealthy.
As a Swiss, I have to say that the comparison is not entirely fair. Switzerland is directly connected to Rotterdam via the Rhine. Even if farming is not enough to feed the entire population today, there is still a lot of agriculture in Switzerland. The large water reserves in glaciers also make a big difference. Similar points can certainly be made for the other countries.
This video is on point. I’m a citizen of Uzbekistan, country is just degrading in all aspects. Young generation leaving the county. You can’t make change or reform the county, going against system is death.
What a beautiful video with full of true and concise historical information. Great years are yet to come. For the prosperity of the region the governors should develop digitalization of their economy and provide like "Shengen" visa for tourists. Because most of the tourists don't want to visit only one of this countries, they want to visit them all if they come to this region.
As Uzbek, I disagree with the USSR part. Firstly, it was Soviet *union* and not *empire* due to USSR being fundamentally opposed to imperialism. Also, the USSR gave us rapid industrialization and made illiteracy rate go almost to 0%. As the saying goes, "Without USSR, we would be like Afghanistan".
It was an authoritarian regime. There were some advantages of the Socialism system. However, people did not live a comfortable life. Everything was controlled by the government, and everything was done with acquaintances. It is still in our systems. The Union did not have a strong economy, and it was only military aimed. People did not have a choice. Dictators ruled and did whatever they wanted e.g., Joseph Stalin (put all the intelligent people in prison).
@@useverythingyouneedtoknow Uzbekistan is still an authoritarian regime (pretty sure other Central-Asian countries are too). Our people are used to it. Better authoritarian regime in a world first-second best country in the world in many aspects than country with no affect to the international affairs. The USSR has the second highest GDP after WW2 all the way to Gorbachev's rule. Stalin did not put all the intelligent people in prison, he put criminals and people he considered suspicious there. They were not sent to the prison due to being intelligent.
@@coolvideoskhatamovs4264 I respectfully disagree with you. During the USSR, they took all the money to the capital and did not provide much to other USSR countries. I know that post-soviet countries still have authoritarian regimes, however, it is much better now than during the USSR period. Now you can go to the store and buy whatever you want, not like getting 2 breads a day like in the USSR. People did not have rights at that time. Everything was done with relatives which is still practiced in many post-Soviet Union countries. Now it is shifting from authoritarian regimes to more democratic ones (e.g., Baltic states, Georgia etc.). I can give you an example of a person who sent the first spaceships to space. Korolev Sergei Pavlovich was arrested and sent to Gulag. After Stalin's death, he was free and worked in aerospace engineering. He does not seem to be a criminal, does he? They arrested all the intelligent people they feared who could go against the government. In Kazakhstan, they killed thousands of politicians, writers and public figures. They did whatever they wanted, migrating people from one place to another on trains in severe conditions (a lot of them died because of hunger). They organized starvation in Kazakhstan and Ukraine, and we still remember that because millions of people died. They test nuclear weapons without informing the local people.
5:55 “The Soviet Union colonized Central Asia” - Wrong. Actually, the Russian Empire colonized Central Asia in 19th century, the Soviet Union appeared only in the 20th century.
No access to the sea
It’s probably more complicated then that
Far more complex. Lots of countries no access to sea. Take Ethiopia, one of Africa’s powerhouses. Botswana is thriving the most in Southern Africa, and Rwanda is fastest growing in the world. All landlocked.
And communism
@@NuSuntSerbcollapse of it.
And commies
5:46 the Tajiks are not a Turkic ethnic group. They are a Persian speaking Iranian ethnic group
i was about to write the same
i mean, yeah. but they developed and recognize themselves as tajiks, so it kind of doesn't matter
Came here to write this.
Also more than half of the population in İran has turkic origins.
They speak Persian but are very close to Turkic people
Any mountain lover should visit Kyrgyzstan. It is literally Switzerland but without fancy houses and tons of tourist infrastructure. Just mountains in their wilderness.
Only free climbers would go for that, most mountain climbers like the infrastructure that allows for their hobby to be done relatively save.
Only that the mountains are much higher than the Alps ;)
Perhaps world's most beautiful hill stations out there.
I was there 8 months ago. It is majestic and beautiful.
I have many shorts from there on my channel.
The best country in Central Asia similar to Switzerland and even better is Tajikistan
It is also important to note that our oil (Kazakhstan), as well as, 80% of our trade is going through Russia, creating a bottleneck that prevents Central Asia from dictating its own policies on exports. In other words, if Russia deems that Central Asia behaves not in its favour, it can create a trading blockade like it did recently with exporting Kazakh oil to Europe.
They don’t need to block, your country has a pro Russian gladio just like ours has a proamerican one in Turkey. They seem to be against them but it’s just to fool the people.
Durıs aytqansız
I would also mention the fact that as Russia controls the caspian oil pipeline (the primary source of Kazakhstan’s income), the foreign policy of Kazakhstan is arguably limited, and, meanwhile we witnessed how that russian bald bastard literally blackmailed us by blocking that pipeline 🫠
Cant you guys turn to trade with india/china instead?
@@Shanghai_colawe are puppets of Russia :)
I live in Kyrgyzstan and what can I say.... Central Asia, first of all, is not poor but developing. We are trying to be neutral in all respects since we are surrounded by “good” Neighbors so the Influence of Russia and China is quite visible, but the Central Asian authorities still maintain neutrality. Tajikistan is not a Turkic people, they are Persians. Almost all countries are authoritarian, but in Kyrgyzstan, Kazakhstan and Uzbekistan it is better...And there is a problem with water, so with global warming, sometimes disagreements with neighbors. but the people are quite calm and hospitable. And thanks for the video
Very accurate bro ❤
could you explain a little bit more detail about the damages China did to Kyrgyzstan? China is an evil empire, I dont know why Kyrgzstan still maintain a relationship with them, nothing comes out from China is good, can you give me some facts how China harm your country in particular?
In Kyrgyzstan, they don’t respect their country; on Independence Day, you simply disrupted the performance; I saw it myself and your president was in despair. Your country is a complete mess, especially in the government.
Your president wanted to take away the Tajik land of Vorukh, but all Tajiks stood up to defend their homeland and did not let you achieve your goals. And everything is fine about water in Tajikistan.
@@Newton_777.How are things going in your country? How do you live with one dictator for 27 years? better?
1. Large desert 2.soviet union 3. landlocked 4. The evaporation of the Aral Sea 5. trade 6. Corruption
Don’t forget dictatorship
Soviet Union was mostly beneficial
Before soviet union there was medieval times lol
Although not as beneficial as direct ocean access, the Caspian sea connects to the Black sea via a series of rivers and canals
@@Prororo What makes you think so? Not to discredit your point, but I am just curious. You see as far as I know Soviet meddling in the region ended Statehood of my country back then. Than there was collectivisation efforts which lead to death or migration of roughly 30% of my countries population. Afterwards there was forced deportations and Virgin land project in my country, which lead to my countries population being 50% of foreign nationality at the time of our independence. Those are some of the things that I remember of the hand, but there were dozen of other questionable projects that Soviets engaged in the CA.
As a Kazakh, I think the reason is because our territory is steppe, more than half of it, and we have no access to the sea, which makes sea trade with traders impossible
This is ridicilous. Only 30% of Kazakhstan's terrain is steppe, rest is desert and semi desert. Steppes can be used for cattle breeding and agriculture.
Ukraine's terrain is 40% steppe and they gain tens of billion dollars from the export of agricultural products.
Central Asia's problems are:
1) Lack of scientific-technical progress.
2) High corruption which makes it impossible even to finish LRT project in Astana... by the way each km of LRT now costs almost 4 times of Musk's Hyperloop...
3) Absence of advanced industries.
4) Lack of skilled high-qualified labour force.
5) Mediocre tertiary education.
I did not mention access to the world ocean (or sea as people prefer to say) because it was already mentioned by everyone here.
@@Adil_Turysbek_TVRCAnd Kazakhstan is the wealthiest of them all….
@@Adil_Turysbek_TVRC And you also add semi-deserts and deserts
Central Asia would prosper on land trade which is growing business. Turkic Union would be best solution on trade Westwards via Turkey.
Eastwards there isn't Sea anywhere near and detouring Eastwards by Sea would be outright useless.
Also, especially Kazakhstan has massive rail and road connection Eastwards to China and their ports. Pretty much Central Asia being geographically Middle of continent means Sea trade is on most efforts costly and outright useless effort to do.
Central Asia is developing faster than you think, especially Uzbekistan and Kazakhstan will become amazing economies one day
Agree
As long as there's corruption in Uzb, there will be no bright future.
One day when there will be new government
@@xkyrsovod7791?
Kazakhstan will probably stagnate
1- Tajiks are Iranian and not Turkic
2- Pashtuns are the biggest ethnic group in Afghanistan, but only around 40%, not over 50 %.
It's okay to be turkic with Iranian language or you can say about all of it like turkic with "western asian" descent
@@sinicixno thank you it is ok just staying as a aryan origin , this region was populated by iranic people before mongols and turks came , and tajiks (persians) are biggest ethnic group in thos region and tajikistan and samarkand bukhara and other cities are all tajiks ,
Come to central asia and you ll se they are asian or aryan 😅😅 by appearance
@@sinicixTajiks ethnically are iranian and their language is iranian
central asia was ruled by many Iranic empires and they rulded central asia before turkic people came from steps of khazakhstan to south, tajiks trace back thier orgin to sammanid empire. Ismail somani is know as father of the nation . and don't forget the fact that there are 12 million tajiks in Uzbekstan and even more living in Aghanistan all speaking a version of persain called : Dari and tajiki @@sinicix
Never thought that someone from English speaking side of the internet could so awesomely sum up the problems that plagues our region (I'm from Kazakhstan). Big respect for such short yet very good and detailed description of the problem.
The best quote regarding our region I've ever heard was from my friend that decided to move to Japan and switch citizenship to it after the elections of 2nd president. The quote was "Cursed region"
- Too much problems(geographical, infrastructural, cultural, sociological, political)
- Too much morons in government(30 years of stealing from its people and it still do not satisfy their greed, absolutely insane)
- Very awesome neighbours(one of them is monkey with nukes threatening to conquer everything again and destroy half of the world, another one doesn't even need to threaten cause they are 2nd economy of the world which also has nukes, another ones bunch of religious zealots who fights between each other and claim to developing nuke)
- People are too tired and just too busy with economical survivability to event think about political changes(the only ones who are working on that are Kyrgyzs, absolute champions of revolutions of the region and the only ones whose president are actually changing, and that cost them with too big economical instability. Turkmenistan is straight up dictatorships, local North Korea I would say. Rest of them are autocracy trying to balance between various political systems). Kinda hard to think about democratic elections and other politics involved things when your objective is to find money for your family in order to survive
At least from KZ perspective, I see some changes and I want to believe into bright future, but with everything in summary, even if that bright future will come, I think it will take us 2 generation to actually reach that lol
I don't want to seem rude, but if you know the map and know more or less what the political systems of Russia, China, Iran and Afghanistan are, this knowledge comes to mind, and additional information only complements it.
I feel you bro, from the other cursed and not so relevant part of the world (South America)
Stay strong, nothing is forever, things will improve. Best wishes from Romania! We just need revolutions, protests, freedom and solidarity movements once in a while
You've described everything pretty well) I'm from Kyrgyzstan. The only thing I have to add is that unfortunately we have authoritarian regime now too( it's even worse. Your president is at least well-educated diplomat irrespective of his ties to Nazarbayev's time and has knowledge of economic policy. On the contrary, we have the worst establishment ever: fully corrupt and really stupid people in government.
Any way, the region will get it's time to prosper:)
Facts
Cool that there is so many central asians who found this video and leaving their perspective on the situation. I wish you al the best!
*all
@@angelavery3840 spelling is important! Thx
As someone who lived in Central Asia for 12 years I can say this is fairly accurate but overly pessimistic. Things are bad but nearly as bleak as this video made it sound.
The Tajiks ARE NOT Turkic. They are Iranic.
Get out turkey@@Polska_Edits
@@Polska_Editsno
@@Polska_Editswho are you hqve you ever seen tajik , or been in central asia, do you know deefrence between turkic people and iranic , tajiks havent inflenced by mongols or some poor turks 😂😂😂, turks are jist like mongols who came from altai region jist nomad people jist asiatic people with narrow eye come to tajikistan and uzbekistan , tajiks are dominant ethnic group in central asia by keeping their origin culture , tajiks are not some asiatic and never influenced , they have influence on turkic people like uzbeks they look 80 percent tajik but claim to be some asiatic turk😂😂😂😂
isn't that Ironic? don't you think?
Its based on language family, i think
Im an Uzbek and i live in Uzbekistan. But i don't think that our citizens are so poor instead we are doing well i guess. When it comes to energy production, in 2024,Uzbekistan is producing enough energy for population and 30% of this is renewable energy
same i live in Kazakhstan it's pretty good here. except being landlocked.
@@happyfaced2584 yes exactly! Only we know the situation who live in central asian countries.
Uzbek best central Asian country strongest eldor shomurodov and best chess players.
In which part exactly? Its really bad outside of the capital. By poor they don’t mean you’re homeless or dirty like in some countries. Can we get gas, oil, electricity continuously without pauses? Unfortunately we can’t. Even in some parts of Tashkent. The education, the gov is corrupt. That’s what we call poor.
@@yuksaktugʻulish yuqori boʻlgan bironta mamlakat tugʻulish kam mamlakat bilan boy kambagʻalligi toʻgʻri kelmaydi
I’m glad to have stumbled onto your page. The analysis of the situation in central asia is very on point (with minor issues like Tajikistan not being a Turkic country, but Persian-speaking).
I am from Azerbaijan and you have summarized the good as well as the bad of the Soviet era in a very clear and accurate manner.
Thank you!
Tajiks are so mixed up with turkic people that it is really difficult to tell how much persian and how much turkic they are. Believe me, language can be misleading when ot comes to identifying ethnicity of tajiks
Don't be too glad, this is an AI made channel, one of many Kyle Hill has warned us about. They are pushing videos like hot cakes.
Judging by the registration date, they are part of information war in Ukraine.
@@parvizhamidov1078 Just because they are neighbors with Turks doesn't make them Turkic. Also Tajiks don't identify themselves as Turkic but rather Persian. Another factor for nationality is appearance and Tajiks are easily distinguishable from Central Asian Turks.
@@parvizhamidov1078there were no others in CA except tajiks after the Mongolian came they inherited most of traditions, culture, widows, they created a new decedents Uzbek, Kyrgiz, Kazakh, etc
@@faridunmuqimi1404 some turkic tribes might have migrated or had been living even before Mongol invasion and og'uz turks were native to CA. I don't know where you all found these misinterpreted fake history stories, but it doesn't do good neither of you to spread false information. The term tajik is just a small branch of persian ethnicities, but you are trying to steal the whole persian history 😂 that's so funny level of brainwashed
I'm from Uzbekistan and here's what can i say about this video.
The main approach to explain the region is too much inspired by international relations and so called "great powers game", leaving too little space for the agency of the local governments and elites. Yes, external power relations played significant role in the shaping the current state of affairs in the region, but the countries themselves weren't without agency either. Read for example the book "Decolonising Central Asian International relations: Beyond Empires" by Timur Dadabaev, 2021.
These type of channels always do the same. It's like they don't consider the people living within these countries to be people at all. They're all little pieces in the international chess game.
It's really interesting that external powers use our resources for their own benefit. For example Lukoil is the russian oil refinery company that takes tons of percentages of oil by so called "Making service of refining oil with highest technologies". But why do we have not brught such technologies? However we have an exact answer why, it would be an obstacle for Putin and his friends from getting rich. (I am from Tashkent tho)
@@Sturmov1 Same reason USA doesn't allow selling semiconductor technology. Why the fuck would Russia sell you technology at no benefit to itself? Its no longer USSR, where soviet republics were part of the same country. Want technology? develop it yourself. More than that, there is literally no country on earth that would allow selling strategic technology, only trade it for something of value, like how last year Russia traded nuclear sub tech to Chinese for their swarm software.
@@user-my5bx3mc5q You know you so funny. You know countries like these are getting rich at the expense of others. And I know that, in part of their intention there is nothing about selling technology. As an international student I study engineering in Germany. As you open your blind eyes wider you can see that I wrote, we have to bring techs, not buy them. What I mean is, me myself doing a lot of research to pursue this target.
@@user-my5bx3mc5q And bro, how we suppose to develop techs on our own, if that countries taking our resources (на халяву). So if you try to use your russian brain a bit, by telling me to develop it by ourselves is like reinventing a bicycle.
Russia colonized Central Aisa first, not the Sovjet Union...
Russian Empire. Russia wasn’t a country back then
@@user-xz3mr9oy7nrussia was a country back then
@@Sunlai_zhRussian empire
@@Sunlai_zhfighting over a technicality, the Russian empire was Russia, even during ww1 it was simply referred to as Russia and its army „the Russian army“/„the Russians“
@@user-xz3mr9oy7n Russian Empire is an Empire title of Russia. Similarly to British Empire being Empire title of England and French Empire as title of France. It is a same country, it just refers to political development and monarchy.
Too low population. If Kazakhstan had 65M people instead of 19 it would be a lot more relevant
Also central asia is not "extremely poor" like you mentioned about 60 times in the video. Kazakhstan is doing pretty good, Turkmenistan-Uzbekitan-Kirghizstan are developing countries and Tajikistan is third world
The population projections for this century are playing in our favor.
Most of their money is from oil.
@@qiziqkop Projections mean nothing as they make unrealistic assumptions about the future circumstances.
50 % contry is desert
I agree. The issue here is not poverty, but corrupt leaders and populations that somehow doesn't stand up to them. When they do, this region will prosper quickly. The research also forgot to mention the Turkic Council (the "EU" of these countries, which has a great potential).
"After the Soviet Union colonized Central Asia in 19th century...."🤣
Yeah, this video is full of inaccuracies
@@nurboldospambetov8293 Yep he is doing his bit of propaganda.
What is wrong with this statement? It was de facto colonization.
@@alberthepooh "Soviet Union...in the 19th century"
@@alberthepoohyes, it was colonization. But he got the centuries mixed up
Maybe if in the future we invented like a super train where you can send huge amounts of cargo more quickly than ships, then central asia could become the center of silk road again
Gigatrain
wouldn't innovation in ships and maybe space transport make this innovation less important?
@@smokedwater1325while it is true in some part,by innovating the train,those regions can finally connect with the world-while by ship it is impossible.Trains are vital in landlocked countries.
@@smokedwater1325is it viable to make boats faster when if you're not careful you can crash into rocks or icebergs and sink?
@@smokedwater1325no trains will most likely stay with us forever just with different technology as they are higly efficient
Heartfelt greetings from Qazaqstan!❤️🇰🇿
Hope Kazakhstan is doing alright, its really cold here in Arkansas! My buddy did a report on y'all in the 8th grade and we both got really interested in the region for awhile
@@501lilspoon It's nice to hear! Visit our country in the future, we will be glad to have guests from different countries. I believe that Our country will be one of top-30 or 50 developed countries in the world! Thank you for your interest in Kazakhstan!))))
this reminds of the love from Kazakhstan meme
@@ayyy9701 oh, sh*t. I didn’t know about💀💀💀 so I edited…
Personally from Kazakhstan, dude just want to say thank you for bringing up this topic, best sum up of all big issues surrounding central Asia. I mean really i've learned so much about our neighbor problems that i wasn't aware of.
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As a Kyrgyz, I will say that the Kyrgyz SSR was a much more developed and civilized country than the current Kyrgyzstan. the level of industrialization was at another level. Yes, there were shortcomings from the Soviet government, but their contribution was also enormous. After the collapse of the USSR, all plants and factories in Kyrgyzstan were closed, we produce little. There is huge corruption and tribalism in the country. it's about us. There haven't been good managers since 1991.
Actually the same goes to all Soviet countries, all plants and factories were closed because they couldn't compete with other countries, products were not that good quality. Industrialization now is better and exporting to other countries, problem is shipping, Kyrgyzstan is landlocked country. The roots of corruption began in USSR, people in power had high privilege like nowadays in North Korea. More civilized? All post Soviet countries went through 90's when criminal was on high level and step by step putting things in order. All you say is Russian propaganda, Russian chauvinists love to say "you're inferior without us, you all owe to us".
@@elbeers50 bro. I know about Russian chauvinists and I don’t like them. I’m just saying what I see. I’m live there. The level of education is much lower than before.
Көтүн кысчы энен жүн баш
Какие страшные вещи говоришь. СССР оказывается пытался развивать свои регионы, а то кроме голодоморов, грабежей и ГУЛАГов о ней больше ничего не услышишь. А так да, эпоха либерализации экономики имеет свою цену - просто не каждому гарантирован успех.
@@urarti7049не очень то и пытался развивать совок Среднюю Азию, самым отсталым регионом был. И развивали только те места где русские проживали, на заводах работали одни русские для этого и создавали, крупные заводы появились, а точнее эвакуировали с европейской части в среднюю азию во время войны в 1940-х
Dude, where are you from anyway? In your country you think that Kyrgyzstan and Tajikistan are both one country? Dude Tajikistan is a separate and independent country, Kyrgyzstan too!
Greetings from Turkiye, I hope the future of the Turkic peoples will be rich and prosperous. Our compatriots in our fatherlands are the light of our eyes. We will reach good days with hope, peace and hard work.
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Thanks, bro. But first Erdogan must be overthrown, he is detsroying what Ataturk had founded
@@EmilRadsky-ll8kxHe's been in charge for 20 years he might as well call himself Sultan
Lmao people from Turkiye are not Turkic. Y'all speak Turkic but genetically you're middle eastern and European mix
@@defjam137and ? Does not matter
If you identify as turkish, you are turkish (except for all the newly arrived araps from the last 10 years)
Thanks from Uzbekistan🇺🇿
There’s nothing for thanking from this video. He said “extremely poor” 60 times with his Eurocentric mind.
that is not true iguess we are living good for exapmle i live in Uzbekistan the goverment informed aboout monthly wage in the citties they are good most of them like tahsken andijan except qaraqalpagistan others earning more than 400$ per month tashken over 800$
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@@tasbykekerey1203 we never get mentioned very often, so even saying our countries names can get us excited
@@Dead.channel388 so true😅
@@Dead.channel388 Don’t be such a pitiful person my brother. We are Turks, our ancestors conquered so many lands in the history.
As uzbek we know that its being better year by year . One day it will be even better than iran, we hope for unification and unification itself
Иран не авторитет. Иран беднее многих стран Центральной Азии, не надо их с нами сравнивать
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Unification with whom?
@@Kickboxer7267 central asia
In the matter of fact, it won't. We have already have .great problems with water and ecology. And thhis process is inly increasing
One of the best videos I have ever seen. Your deep research on the subject is really outstanding. Thank you for the analysis
Uzbekistan is not poor. Most urban population have somewhat decent standard of living.
Plus patriarchal system in the region mitigates effects of poverty, as you can't kick your relatives from your home and you're obliged to help them selflessly. Otherwise you'll be ostracized by your extended family.
Uzbekistan could be much richer. The people of these republics need to stand up and demand transparency, rule of law from their otocratic leaders. They still haven't woken up, which is understandable, however, to prosper as modern nations they need to learn to demand. They are the most secular, educated and open-minded people in the Islamic geography, so they have huge potentials. But as I said, they need to wake up.
Qotaqqa kirib yotibdiku brat, benzinni narxini ko'ring
Every time I hear of that country I think of Hermon Cain saying Uzbekistanstanstan when he was running for president of the US.
@@saressketi69 😂😂
@@Macristogulf countries have oil, Their leaders live super luxurious life, no need to corrupt more money. does Uzbekistan have that much oil ?
Well researched video. I'm Qazaq from Qazaqistan. The region has a lot of potential, but it is run by oligarchs with little regard for the people they serve. The oil economy is the only thing keeping us afloat. The rest of the economy is dependent on Russian imports, which why we keep losing each time the Ruble plummets. Not to mention all the language problems that the government is ignoring. People have to learn Russian to get a job, the Russians coming here since 2022 get all the good jobs without effort, and now we Qazaqs can't have a mind of our own because most of us aren't speaking the language. There was so much coverage of and support for Palestine this year, yet none of those people cared about geographically closer issues like the Uyğırs. Why? Because the Russian speaking media they consume isn't interested in covering what concerns our own region, but rather what concerns Russia. A lot of our internet infrastructure is dependent on Moscow too. Ask where Google, Sony and the like operate from. It feels like a perpetual prison because the legislative bodies can't bother protecting our sovereignty. There should be no issues getting a job or services speaking the one and only national language.
First time seeing a person from Kazahstan writing their country name like you did. As a ukrainian living abroad because of the war i hope you will not have a war with Russia and will have a strong a unique culture and an independent state. Казахи - молодцы и удачи вам!
This was interesting to hear. I enjoy hearing about the Kazakh people, and there is very little talk about them in America
@@user-mk1zu1pu2dОн так написал, потому, что на казахском, в латинской орфографии, название страны пишется так. Тем не менее, официальное название - Kazakhstan. Может, то, как он написал тоже когда-нибудь станет официальным, например, если Кз. перейдёт на латиницу.
Why are th3 Russians so evil
I wonder what's your opinion of China though? Did you have any personal dealing with the Chinese? Because I assume Kazakstan's economy is more depandent on China?
i had a roommate in collage from Kyrgyzstan and the reason he gave me besides the usual government/people stuff like corruption and skill level was the fact that its steppe, filled to the brim with heavy forests and surprisingly aired.
in other words not only did it have its own country issues, landlocked with little water, and its a post soviot union country but just working there is hard as theirs not actually that much usable land in a place that's almost all land do to their small population.
Kyrgyzstan is a mountainous country*. We have enough water for us, but the problem is that we have to share our water with Kazakhstan or else they're blocking the borders. Thankfully, China is investing a lot of money on the Silk Road project so we can stop sharing our precious water with people in Kazakh steppes.
Everything else is true, unfortunately😢
As an international relations student I want to thank you for showing reasons why our states are in this tough situation. Thank you for your efforts and the video! With love from Kyrgyzstan
5:55 The Soviet Union didn't exist in the 19th century. Overall this is an interesting video on a topic that is rarely covered, but mistakes like that (and the numerous mispronunciations and misspellings) are a bit of a let down and make the whole video seem cheaply made or rushed.
I never knew Soviet Union existed in 1800s
because of your lack in knowledge in alternate history ;)
You did a good research, it's clear that you read a lot too, great video 👍🏻 From Kazakhstan 🇰🇿
This was so interesting, wow thank you for this piece!
As a Central Asian (from Kazakhstan), our countries are absolutely not "extremely poor" as you said so many times. Kazakhstan is upper middle-income economy, Uzbekistan is a rapidly developing country. Only Tajikistan and Kyrgyzstan are poor, but not extremely. In most cities people have decent standard of living comparible to Eastern Europe levels. This video exaggerates our problems, yet says almost nothing about our success. Also many inaccuracies: for example you say Tajiks are turkic, while they are in fact persian. Also, you say all cities were built during the Silk Road times, while showing footage of our capital Astana, which is a very modern city built in 1990s-2000s
You are right
I really like the word “colonised” in regards of what soviets and imperialist Russia did. Small note: the borders were not the nationalities per se, it was similar to what the British did. Divide the map, mostly randomly but also so that close or same ethnicities that are too dangerous will end up in different regions. For example how Tatarstan is separate from other Turkic states.
As an Uzbek I can confirm this. Thank you, great analysis
Tatarstan was conquered during the Tsarist Russia in 1552 and at that time Russia was far from being called an empire. Only 100 years ago, in 1480, it was freed from the Mongol yoke.
not "randomly", very much deliberately to "divide and conquer", as they say
Tatarstan, Bashkortostan and Chuvashia in general were separated from the Turks of Central Asia in the Mongol period.
@@dwishs "...Tsarist Russia in 1552 ... 100 years ago, in 1480, it was freed from the Mongol yoke."
english: You should say, 100 years BEFORE, that would be 1452.
100 years ago, means 1924, 100 years before now.
And, a century before, that's less exact, would mean maybe 1440 through 1470.
Or, "seven decades before", means 1482, give or take a few years.
I am from Kazakhstan and what you say is real, and I am very pleased to hear about my region
As a Turk from Kazakhstan, i can say that Tajiks not a turkic nation.
As a European, I always found this whole region fascinating. I want to come as a tourist, which cities would great to visit for a first time visitior? I was thinking Samarkand, because its famous. what about food and nightlife, the clubs, museums?
Im sure this region will prosper!🎉
you can make a big tour of Uzbekistan by first visiting the largest city in Central Asia, Tashkent, then to the world-famous Samarkand, then to Bukhara, Khiva and generally throughout Khorezm if you want to get acquainted with Zoroastrianism, and lastly you can see the dying sea with your own eyes (aral sea)
I travelled Central Asia this year and I wish I had more time in Uzbekistan, I spent most my time in Kazakhstan and visited the two biggest cities; Almaty and Astana. I also went to Karagandy which was a pleasant city and went camping in the south. Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan was a surprising city in terms of nightlife for me as it was really good comparative to its size.
@@iconbeatbox679Which city did you like the most?
Central Asia has great potential, which is limited by the influence of the three giants. Iran does not play a big role in these countries, but the United States does. If you want to visit this region, here are the cities you must visit: Tashkent, Almaty, Samarkand, Dushanbe, Bishkek, Ashgabat, Astana, Turkestan, Taraz. U can read the story of how the United States together with the dictator from Kazakhstan, stole all the oil from people.
@@basties-_-3880 US is the largest oil producer but somehow "stole" all the oil from a landlocked country in between their 2 biggest rivals? Either that's bullshit or those countries are so terribly weak that even from the other side of the world they lose to America LOL. I just love how certain nations talk about how strong and mighty they are but also complain that all their problems are apparently caused by the CIA/West/whoever is the current scapegoat.
Tajikistan is not Turkic.
@@fsghhvu1922 Idiot.
@@fsghhvu1922 you should be ashamed of yourself for such a racist remark and question your intellectual capacity.
Thank you. This explained a lot.
Been to KZ a few times, lovely country but IMO in need of independence from Russian and Chinese influence
Flying with all their geography closer to the Caribbean Sea would be even better!
Can u tell me how a landlocked, deserted country like that developing without influence from its superior neighbors ?
ya, you should tell Mongolia keep distance with China and Russia too. don't trade with them, shut down the borders. 😂
@@jt-ttt shut down the borders and go to bed 😆
There's literally no Chinese influence
Only trade bro
As a Uzbek our country developed enough compare other Central Asia countries. We have a lot of source opportunity firstly teenagers Uzbekistan the most high populated country in central asia this have a positive impact of this country future. I believe.
Сначала посмотри на Казахстан. Казахи не едут в Узбекистан и не работают на стройке, а сколько узбеков приезжают в Казахстан и работают в стройке. Казахстан - самая развитая страна в Центральной Азии
Always behind the most developed country of CA Kazakhstan.
cry about it)
Here is top 3:
1. Kazakhstan
2. Uzbekistan
3. Kyrgyzstan
@@Jae336 Кыргызстан беден, Туркменистан в десять раз богаче. Туркменстан 2-й или 3-й
5:37 "The 5 major ethnicities from largest to smallest all of whom are considered Turkic..." - Tajik is not Turkic, but rather close to Farsi/Iranians.
Also at 3:28 "Altai" is pronounced as it's written, not "atlai".
What an informative video! I'm utterly impressed by your effort. Keep creating amazing content!
Out of the Central Asian countries, Turkmenistan is the most fascinating place. When Turkmenistan declared its independence, its leader was Saparmurat Niyazov aka Turkmenbashi or "Leader of the Turkmen" and he was quite the character. He changed the coat of arms to include his pet horse, he renamed a city after himself, closed hospitals outside Ashgabat to force rural people to visit, he spent the country's natural gas money on fancy marble buildings in Ashgabat, and he made people read his book called the Ruhnama. The Ruhnama was his book of opinions that all had to agree with. If you want to drive, you had to pass a test on the Ruhnama. He even renamed the months of the year, like one after his mother and of course, the Ruhnama.
Did I mention he ALSO had a golden statue of himself that rotated so that it would ALWAYS face the Sun, to symbolize that his age was the golden age? And if that wasn't enough, the guy that came after him was a dentist who was quite obsessed with the Akhal-Teke horse breed, Gurbanguly Berdimuhamedow. He not only continued with the marble buildings and golden statues (like one of himself on horseback), but he was a leader obsessed with winning Guinness World Records, like the largest indoor Ferris wheel and the largest architectural star. When there was a rumor that he died in 2019, he did donuts around a burning crater to prove he was alive. When he stepped down in 2022, his son Serdar took over.
Turkmenistan is the worst country in terms of the free will of its inhabitants, nothing exciting about it.
This is wild
Local north korea😂
There some corrections. Tajikistan is not Turk country, it is Persian. Second, uranium was mostly mined in Kyrgyzstan which is traceable by the amount of uranium left sites
it is not Persian. Even Iran is not Persian. Iran religion -shia, tajiks are sunnis. This is big difference.
In terms of nationality he means, I believe. Of course, Iran is officialy a muslim (shia) country and Tajiks are muslims (sunnis). However, both nations are muslims. That is a little difference in terms of religion but both nations speak the same language with different dialects, have the same culture and the same history. Tajiks branch from Persian ethnicity. So, his comment makes sense
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As an Uzbek, I need to mention that our biggest problem is the lack of skilled people. In every area, we have struggled with this.
Also, I mention that every country's first leaders saw enemies of each other and played stupid political games. But thanks to god, nowadays our leaders meet each other every year and solve each other's problems together. Recently, I read that Kyrgyzstan will help Uzbekistan with the water problem a bit.
LACK of skilled people? Bro we ARE SKILLED ENOUGH. but those skilled people you or our goverment wants WILL NEVER EVER, EVER work for government because of HAVING NO RIGHT, and less salary. WE have a lot of businessman and women and other skilled people wondering around in foreign countries. BECAUSE THEY ARE CALUED There , here their value equals to how much? 3mln sums?)))
My man's been reading Tim Marshall, great video!
yeah, barbarian Soviets rushed into underdeveloped steppe and left industrial cities, universities, libraries after themselves. Also, those bad Soviets developed local culture and languages (korenization). Stupid Soviets educated the locals and literacy rate was the sky high since the 1930s. I agree, it's s much better to produce only cotton and uneducated workforce for other countries these days instead of advanced electronic goods 40 years ago.
This region is a dead-end geographically speaking, the closest big city is about 3000 km, no sea access, constant ethnic tensions and problems. Add here corruption and tribal mentality and you'll get the cocktail.
Probably with One Belt initiative it will change but it's a long process.
Communism wasn’t the problem,but the collapse of it.
Rather,geographically speaking,it is almost impossible for them to connect with the world,mountains everywhere and no sea.😢
@victorpisarev7768 He never said that soviets were barbarian, He said that they mismanaged the region which they did.
Bro, the only thing that the video says about the Soviet Union is that it fucked up with the idea of sowing the steppe (half of the sown lands were eroded, and the other half brought less food than expected). And the fact that the collapse of the Soviet Union seriously fucked up Central Asia (in fairness, all post-soviet countries of the 90s were still shit)
White man's burden Russians style.
It's ironic that the Russians never view themselves as typical colonizers while they think and behave exactly like the typical colonizers do.
I don’t understand how the UAE and South Korea and Singapore and especially Finland (which fought for its independence) are rich who were not connected to the USSR, but those who were connected to the USSR Eastern Europe
as a kazakh, I fully agree with author`s opinion. Moreover, the one of the main reason of not developing of Central Asia, Especially Kazakshtan is the youngest generation are not passioned about knowledge and studying. Corruption is everywhere starting from the local kindergarten but the main problem is young people don`t get high-quality education and they`re not passioned about to.
У нас ни один экономический институт не созрел для выхода на новый уровень. Поэтому поколение 90ых имеет очень важное значение для построения будущего
Да да, во всем виновата молодежь, а не коррупция и кумовство
You are so wrong, young people here are very ambitious and fierceful just like in every other developing country because of the/thanks to the inferiority complex. In fact it's the opposite - the young generation of the first world countries are the most inert ones and thus they collect all the talent and hard work from everywhere around the world, especially from South/South East Asia
you are SO wrong about younger generation. In fact they are the most educated ones in Kazakhstan. Every year so many Kazakh students get into top universities of the world like Harvard (and no they're not rich kids but regular kazakhs with regular families.) You can find smart Kazakh youth everywhere around the world doin extraordinary job. The problem is the older generation and government. There is a reason why so many pf them leave and never return to Kazakhstan. Yall don't listen to them nor do you give them any opportunities. Don't ever blame them for anything before you look at students of NIS, phizmat and KTL or at least have a talk with them. They are creating robots and making new discoveries. It's not their fault that the old fucks overlook them while the Westerner's don't
I don’t agree with your point ,maybe your right but ,you gotto consider that they also want to change that structure but don’t have hope ,and confidence about their future,because they know that if they want to be president or minister they won’t be cause ,they will probably put their people when it’s about choosing they won’t pick that passioned and intelligent youth rather than their relatives.So new generation lost their hope and faith for their future
Kyrgyz citizen right here. Here are my thoughts on this problem from major to minor:
- Corruption. It's almost everywhere
- Nepotism. Our culture loves that so much! relative > talented man (small and medium enterprises, also government)
- Illiteracy among people.
- Lack of inclusive institutions
- Bad investment climate since lack of inclusive institutions.
- Landlocked country, low level of industrialization
- Relatively small nation
- Huge dependence on import and remittances
- At some point external influence from russians (imo as far as we get benefits from the partnership we should be okay with that).
Revolution comes from evolution of every human being. I think we can do much better.
Thanks for the video about my motherland Kazakhstan!
Tajics are Persian\Iranic, not Turkic.
You can blame Stalin for this. He drew the borders *with the intent of causing conflict* between the peoples of these nations should they ever think about gaining independence from the Soviet Union. Since the Soviet Union collapsed, they still have the same borders as they did before; the problem here should be obvious.
thank you for revealing truth about Central Asia . Love from Kazakstan
Thank You For This Video. It was really very Nice & Informative. Your Video was really very Nice.May God Bless You & Your Channel.Amen.
5:59 “Soviet Union colonized Central Asia in the 19th century” - there was no USSR in the 19th century. It was established in 1922.
Well, it doesn’t matter. The russkies colonized the region and then after some time they established that “union”. The USSRs ideology was based on the russki tsars. So is Putin’s. Nothing is changed.
Российская империя ничем не отличается от СССР. Сменилась только правящая власть все
@@alashorda2206пиздец, вы недалёкий.
Говорить, что царская Россия и СССР одно и тоже, это реально надо быть недалёким человеком.
@@alashorda2206 сразу видно, никакого образования нет
yes, the announcer was wrong, but in general it is correct, the Russian Empire began to conquer Central Asia in the 19th century
As a person who lives in Central Asia in Kazakhstan I can say that water is the most important problem in this area. Especially for Kazakhstan. Because we don't have any rivers that starts in our lands
I Googled this because I have a classmate who's Kazakh, and it made me wonder why we hardly hear anything from these countries. It makes a bit more sense now but it's kinda sad.
I am a Tajik. Tajiks are an ethnic group of Persians. Our language is Persian.
They can make Asian version of sea - river - sea connection like in Europe Northerm Sea - Rhine - Maine - Danube - Black Sea. But across Iran - Afganistan and Iran - Pakistan border to Gulf of Oman/Arabian Sea and across Russian - Azerbzaijan, Russian - Georgian border to Black Sea.
At 5:35 there is a mistake: the Tajiks are not Turkic at all, but are an Iranic people related to the Persians. They fit into the Central Asian categorisation because they were conquered by the Russian Empire and from there on they had the same influences as their neighbouring Turkic peoples, but otherwise they are related to most Afghans and Persians.
P.S. Still, it is a well-made video.
Tajiks are sunnis Iranians are shias. This diffirence is enough that Iran is in conflict with tajiks
@@EmilRadsky-ll8kxAs a Tajik, I can confirm to you that we have no problems with the Iranians, they are our brothers 💪🇹🇯❤️🇮🇷
3:28 Altai mountain range. Not Atlai
5:38 Neither Tajikistan nor Tajiks are considered Turkic. Speaking of ethnicity and language, they have somewhat more Persian origin and background. However, the country remains in the geopolitical area of Central Asia, sharing similar politics, culture and history.
The narrator forgot to tell us why Central Asia was colonized by Russian Empire in the first place. It was a race for influence against the British Empire. Brits controlled India and seeked to expand north.
sure. every superpower in the world always competed and will continue to compete against eachother forever.
India was colonised by the British.
Central Asia was colonised by the Russians.
Tibet and Vietnam was colonised by the Chinese
@@LevisH21 Incorrect comparison. Colonisation happens when the occupied territory and its resources and masses are exploited to benefit the colonising power.
So yes India was a colony of Britain because when the British arrived in India, it had 25% share in global economy. And when they left in 1947 India's share in global economy was down to 1-2% and India was at it's lowest in all of it's thousands of years old history.
On the other hand Soviets developed infrastructure and facilities in these Central Asian -stan countries.
And in the case of Tiber Autonomous Region it has seen the best time in all of it's history under the Chinese rule.
@@thecomment9489You fail to account that the reason the Indias portion of the GDP had fallen was because other nations GDP had rissen. The US was a super power with an enourmous portion of global GDP, while the US didn't exist by the time India became a british colony.
A hundred dollars from a pile of a thousand is 10% and a hundred dollars from a pile of ten thousand is 1%. But it's still 100 dollars.
And look at which former colonies prospers, every single russian colony is still a developing country, while several of britains are among the best in the world.
@@Mukation //You fail to account that the reason the Indias portion of the GDP had fallen was because other nations GDP had rissen.//
Look how a low rate Westoid trying to brainwash me and to somehow prove that the Brits were saints. Yes that could be one reason but why did India's share not rise at at least remained at that level? It is because when a few million people keep dying every few years because of deliberately created famines it is difficult to raise or evne maintain the existing level, right? And the unlawful and horrendous taxes were imposed and all attempts were made to destroy the Indian manufacturing the result was what it was in 1947.
And all the Central Asian -stans were in much better position in 1991 at the time of the collapse of the USSR than any of the former British colonies ever were at the time of their independences.
@@LevisH21a northern Chinese here, Vietnam and other regions of China share the same central government's time, which is thousands of years longer than many regions in northern China, such as the northern region where I am located, although within the Great Wall. Get rid of the historical perspective that the West has instilled in you. This is called unity and division. It's not colonialism.
Ocean access is critical for independent countries. Even a cold-water port is better than no port. Its what driving Ethiopia's decisions, and etc. That region has traditionally been under the influence of other countries, Persia, CHina, Russia, and etc. It has rarely had its own sovreignty.
😮😮wow thank you for video 🔝🔝
The part about Altai mountains sounds botched up. It's not located in the South-East, and obviously doesn't extend to Middle East. You probably mixed it up with Alatau mountains which is a part of the Tian Shan mountain range in the South Eastern Kazakhstan and a large part of Kyrgyzstan
5:46 Tajiks aren’t Turkic they are an Iranian people
Russia has the strongest levers of pressure on Kazakhstan, these are military bases and training grounds in Baikonur, Sary Shagan, Priozersk where there are at least 10,000 - 20,000 Russian troops. In Baikonur there may still be Russian nuclear weapons there. All air defense of Kazakhstan is controlled by Russia under the pretext of the CSTO. 80% of oil goes through the Novorossiysk port, through the CPC. At the top of power in Kazakhstan there are simply agents of the KGB, FSB... In the event of war, there is nothing to fight with, all military equipment is old trash, not long ago large ammunition depots in Kazakhstan were deliberately blown up. The army is full of traitors, 90% of the generals are graduates of the Russian Military Academy, with Soviet and pro-Russian thinking and worldview. So, until Kazakhstan gets rid of Russian military bases and training grounds, from the dependence of the pipeline through Russia, from the KGB and FSB agents in power, nothing will change. ☝️😔🇰🇿
Wow. Kudos my friend!
This is one of very rare, well researched videos on my home region. 👏
The silk road time was unique, and therefore the rise of central Asia eas unique. And you quite well described the reasons why the same story won't be happen in foreseeable future.
But these countries could gain more from better economic and management.
The USSR didn't exist in the 19th century but rather the 20th century. The October Revolution happened in 1917 and the USSR was created in 1922. It's interesting to note that during the time of the Soviet Union, while the Central Asian SSRs were the poorest (the Tajik SSR was the poorest), the most prosperous (besides of course the Russian SSR) were the Baltics! They still faced challenges of course though. The shrinking of the Aral Sea isn't the only bad ecological thing that the Soviets did in Central Asia. There's also the Darvaza crater or the Door to Hell in Turkmenistan. The crater was created in 1971 during a Soviet drilling accident that hit a gas cavern, causing the drilling rig to fall in and the earth to collapse underneath it.
To prevent the dangerous fumes from spreading into nearby settlements, the Soviets decided to burn off the gas by setting it on fire. They thought that the fire would burn off in a few weeks...key words: they thought. So it's been burning for decades, but the government wants to eventually extinguish it because of its effects on the environment and said nearby settlements. The crater is located in the Karakum, which makes up most of Turkmenistan. Within the Turkmen people living in the Karakum, there are five major tribes, Teke, Yomud, Saryq, Çowdur, and Ärsary. These tribes are represented on Turkmenistan's flag with each tribe's traditional carpet design.
I am from Uzbekistan and as a citizen of this country, I can definitely say that there are a lot of wrong facts not only about Uzbekistan but about other Central Asian countries too. We have quite a modern system of infrastructure
Aka biz shunaqa deb oʻylaymiz, lekin chetdan qaraganda rostdan ham videoda aytilgan gaplar toʻgʻri afsuski
modern system of infrastructure? come oon! bro I did not have eletrcity whole month in 2023 and cutting it is usual even in ordinary days I think you dont live in Uzbekistan
Great pronunciation by the way (except for Altay, not Atlai).
Great content, very accurate. Minor correction - Tajik language does not belong to Turkic group.
We are poor, but being away from world ocean has its perks. Our land is not worthy of the efforts required to support great power presence in this region. So our land is dear only to us, the locals.
Great work!
Iam from Kyrgyzstan 🇰🇬💪🏼.Great video from eg speaker
Don't know if putting the Northern Alliance in power counts as "ignorance", sounds more like a calculated decision to reward allies and ensure loyal governance to me.
Low population and Land locked
And governed by leaders who had it good during the Soviet days.
Great video, not a lotta people talk about how much harm Soviets caused in central Asia 👍
as a kazakh i just say that the problem is corruption, nothing matters as much as this obstacle
The reason is mostly political corruption and not geography. Because you have countries like Switzerland, Luxembourg, Lietchtenstein, Czechia, and Austria that are landlocked with no resources nor arable land for the most part, yet they are pretty wealthy.
Because they have good neighbours and they located in Europe, 😄😁
As a Swiss, I have to say that the comparison is not entirely fair. Switzerland is directly connected to Rotterdam via the Rhine. Even if farming is not enough to feed the entire population today, there is still a lot of agriculture in Switzerland. The large water reserves in glaciers also make a big difference. Similar points can certainly be made for the other countries.
Reason is ignorant People
@@erasylgameskz6657 czechs especially had very good german neighbours who absolutely totally didnt almost colonise their ass
@@benismannCzechs colonised Germany in 1945, if anything. Remember the Sudetenland? Where do you think the Germans went?
I think the author of this video doesn't know that tajik people are persian people, not turkic.
Ба ин эзоҳоти ман рамзи "маъкул" монед, то дигарон, ва худи муаллифи ин видео онро пайхас кунанд.
Great video.
This video is on point. I’m a citizen of Uzbekistan, country is just degrading in all aspects. Young generation leaving the county. You can’t make change or reform the county, going against system is death.
They weren't weak in nomadic empires era
It would be far stronger if the Aral Sea still existed because by now there would be a canal to the Caspian Sea, and the rest of the world.
What a beautiful video with full of true and concise historical information. Great years are yet to come. For the prosperity of the region the governors should develop digitalization of their economy and provide like "Shengen" visa for tourists. Because most of the tourists don't want to visit only one of this countries, they want to visit them all if they come to this region.
Good info!
Long live Uzbekistan! 🇺🇿🇺🇿🇺🇿
As Uzbek, I disagree with the USSR part. Firstly, it was Soviet *union* and not *empire* due to USSR being fundamentally opposed to imperialism. Also, the USSR gave us rapid industrialization and made illiteracy rate go almost to 0%. As the saying goes, "Without USSR, we would be like Afghanistan".
Ahahahah lol. Ussr is a big Sh*#t of our country.
It was an authoritarian regime. There were some advantages of the Socialism system. However, people did not live a comfortable life. Everything was controlled by the government, and everything was done with acquaintances. It is still in our systems. The Union did not have a strong economy, and it was only military aimed. People did not have a choice. Dictators ruled and did whatever they wanted e.g., Joseph Stalin (put all the intelligent people in prison).
@@useverythingyouneedtoknow did not have a strong economy, being 2nd largest economy in the world... ok dude
@@useverythingyouneedtoknow Uzbekistan is still an authoritarian regime (pretty sure other Central-Asian countries are too). Our people are used to it. Better authoritarian regime in a world first-second best country in the world in many aspects than country with no affect to the international affairs. The USSR has the second highest GDP after WW2 all the way to Gorbachev's rule. Stalin did not put all the intelligent people in prison, he put criminals and people he considered suspicious there. They were not sent to the prison due to being intelligent.
@@coolvideoskhatamovs4264 I respectfully disagree with you. During the USSR, they took all the money to the capital and did not provide much to other USSR countries. I know that post-soviet countries still have authoritarian regimes, however, it is much better now than during the USSR period. Now you can go to the store and buy whatever you want, not like getting 2 breads a day like in the USSR. People did not have rights at that time. Everything was done with relatives which is still practiced in many post-Soviet Union countries. Now it is shifting from authoritarian regimes to more democratic ones (e.g., Baltic states, Georgia etc.). I can give you an example of a person who sent the first spaceships to space. Korolev Sergei Pavlovich was arrested and sent to Gulag. After Stalin's death, he was free and worked in aerospace engineering. He does not seem to be a criminal, does he? They arrested all the intelligent people they feared who could go against the government. In Kazakhstan, they killed thousands of politicians, writers and public figures. They did whatever they wanted, migrating people from one place to another on trains in severe conditions (a lot of them died because of hunger). They organized starvation in Kazakhstan and Ukraine, and we still remember that because millions of people died. They test nuclear weapons without informing the local people.
I just learned more information from this video all history of central Asia than I learned from school subject
I live here😂😂😂. There should be a photo of old man with coffee.
As a kyrgyz that lives in US: life could be dream...
5:58 after the Soviet Union colonized central asia in the 19th centuries..im like:what?
Born near Aral Sea, it was quite devastating hearing why its like that.
As a person who has visited Kazakhstan, I can say that corruption and internal conflicts are one of the main problems
5:55 “The Soviet Union colonized Central Asia” - Wrong. Actually, the Russian Empire colonized Central Asia in 19th century, the Soviet Union appeared only in the 20th century.
3:29 It is so much easier to pronounce the correct "Altai" than incorrect "Atlai". Why is it so hard for you english-speakers?