Afghanistan 1970 vs Now

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malignantpolyp on August 16th, 2021 at 18:13 UTC »

Ah, the happy years before the CIA pumped hundreds of millions to local militant religious fundamentalists. Who ever could have foreseen that would come back to bite us in the ass.

Spartan2470 on August 16th, 2021 at 19:45 UTC »

Here is a higher quality and less cropped version of the image on the left. Here is the source. Per there:

Women in Afghanistan, 1972: young students wearing mini-skirts walking down the street in city of Kabul. In the Shar-e-NaĆ¼ area (the new town), a few emancipated girls wear the mini-skirt, despite the violent critics of the majority of the Afghan people, still attached to Muslim traditions. The Mullah, Muslim religious, do not hesitate to throw acid on the nude legs of the emancipated girl. (Photo by Laurence BRUN /Gamma-Rapho via Getty Images)

Here is a higher quality and less cropped version of the image on the right.

Hermano_Hue on August 16th, 2021 at 20:06 UTC »

The pic on the left was never the standard, dunno why people keep posting this over and over? Id get it if it was iran, but afghanistan was mostly rural and every community/ village lived under their 'local' leader.