{"id":398,"date":"2012-09-12T10:11:27","date_gmt":"2012-09-12T05:41:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bamiyan.us\/wordpress\/?p=398"},"modified":"2012-09-12T10:11:27","modified_gmt":"2012-09-12T05:41:27","slug":"1975-afghanistan-1113-tashkent","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/bamiyan.us\/wordpress\/?p=398","title":{"rendered":"1975 Afghanistan – 11\/13 – Tashkent"},"content":{"rendered":"

Intourist was my host for the trip through the Soviet Union. I was advised when booking the trip in Kabul that it was more appropriate to be a student than a broadcast engineer.<\/p>\n

On my guided day trip around Tashkent I discovered that the city was home to the inventor of television. I was also able to watch some of the joint US\/Soviet space mission on television in my hotel. It is remarkable how much better the NASA video was than that produced by the Soviets – despite the difficulties of doing the conversion from NTSC to SECAM.<\/p>\n

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This park scene leaves no doubt that the photo was taken within the USSR.<\/p><\/div>\n

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Uzbeks don’t need to subscribe to the paper to read it. Pravda and Izvestia are available in this functional open air display. Save a tree!<\/p><\/div>\n

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This photo captures the spirit of life in the city of Tashkent in 1975.<\/p><\/div>\n

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After Afghanistan, this sort of display of water was mind boggling. Here water was so abundant that it could be sprayed into the air in a public area.<\/p><\/div>\n

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Intourist was my host for the trip through the Soviet Union. I was advised when booking the trip in Kabul that it was more appropriate to be a student than a broadcast engineer.
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