Uzbekistan and the PRIVATISATION of cotton cultivation - VisualPolitik EN
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Uzbekistan is one of the most brutal and corrupt dictatorships in the world. Like other Central Asian countries, the economy of this place is based on the export of cotton. To maintain competitive prices, the Uzbek dictators employ slave labor. In many cases, the Uzbek regime has even forced children to work in the cotton harvest. The same can be said of other countries in the region such as Tajikistan, Turkmenistan or the Xinjiang region of China.
However, in recent years, Uzbekistan has decided to end slavery. And it has done so without changing its political system. Shavkat Mirziyoyev's dictatorship remains as corrupt and oppressive as ever... The abolition of slavery in Uzbekistan is not motivated by humanitarian concerns. So... Why exactly have they ended slave labor? What reasons have motivated this decision? In this video, we tell you.
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Speaking with a supposed russian accent in your videos is really taking the high route...😐 I am disappointed.
Guys, can you cover Bosnia and Herzegovina ? It's a great mystery how my country goes under the radar. This country is hilarious! We have frozen conflict here, tribalistic mentality, religious fanaticism, obsession with identities, nationalism, corruption, we are PROTECTORATE, we don't have free politics, half of the country don't want to be part of Bosnia, this country is a project of a big players ( USA, UK, EU...etc ) but it is falling to pieces in every possible aspect!
I don't know why don't you include India in Stan countries because it is the big daddy of Stan countries... Although it is not the country's official name but it is quite commonly known as Hindustan....
Well, reminds me about my childhood when I was forced to pick up cotton instead of studying. And yes, I grew up in Uzbekistan. And no, I do not believe they are stopping this practice
No bro they have already stopped forcing pepole.l live in Uzbekistan.We are not forced picking up cotton about decades.
@@ravshanyodgorov3200🤐🤐🤐🤐
@@tyrellwellick6234 ??????
Sshhh
Believe, they did. But education is still in a terrible condition. We better not go to school but do selfstudy
Nothing like a good reminder that things might seem grim at times, but it could very well be much much worse.
If you are watching this video you probably have a half decent life in a semi free democracy or republic.
Be grateful for what you have
No longer the case in the US though.
Trump has called on his supporters to "FIGHT BACK" inciting violence and social unrest. If you're wondering whether that could be the spark for CIVIL WAR, there's a great analysis that looks into that: czcams.com/video/EeF61LRYSKk/video.html&ab_channel=MyTake
From Uzbekistan here. It was mandatory to go to pick cutton 8 years ago for school children. They shut the school and send children to do the job. Not anymore the situation is getting better and better every year
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We have different problem now in Uzbekistan. The new government took loans and we don't know how much of it was corrupted. Then taxes are increased and there is no more governmental subsidies which is causing prices to skyrocket. That means citizens are paying for those loans. We need more transparency, and less corruption and government that understands its obligations. BTW @visualpolitics can you please make video about Kyrgyzstans revolution which happened just over a night?
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Cotton, it restarted slavery in American south when it was on its way out, it destroyed the Aral sea, enslaved Uzbaks and Uyghurs..
Thanks to science we now have synthetic fibers. Hopefully we can put an end to the scourge that is cotton!
But those of us in North America can still keep our jeans, right? Otherwise I'm out.
@@bobhope4288 Synthetic fibres aren't without their problems either.
@@cliffdunlop8891 Oh no, you're telling me there is no magical catch all answer that will solve all of the world's problems?
Cotton is not the problem. People are the problem.
@@cliffdunlop8891 Exactly, There will always be need for cotton products, why? It's very much hyppoalergenic. So sensitive people and hospitals will remain customers of this commodity
“Oh I don’t have any money”... says every Scottish man when it’s his round of beers.
I am from Uzbekistan 😅. 🇺🇿
Me too so far I know about cotton it is getting good not bad Did you watched on TV about it they built entire organization related to cotton. They said if someone try to you slave you or something like that call I just forgot number as well as it is not joke it is fact.
The editing isn't great. He spends the first part of the video talking about child labor, and then not even halfway in, he references it again as if it's a whole new thing.
You left out Kyrgyzstan.
I am uzbek and I confirm all the things in the video are correct. I myself was sent to cotton plant by school at the age of 8 and that day still is as clear as tomorrow
But it was decades ago.Nowadays I also live in Uzbekistan.The government is not forcing people picking up cotton.Instead people are making money in quarantine
@@ravshanyodgorov3200 but still there're some or plenty forced labour going on there
@@parvizhamidov1078 I do not think so
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@@user-xn4qp6gq2s you are stupid enough to say something like that, i am talking about a slavery from September to beginning of December. Children aged 8-9 are driven to cotton plants
He could've just said 22% of world's cotton is produced in Xinjiang and saved 2 minutes of our time 🙄
People here who constantly talk about slavery don’t give a damn about this
[citation needed]
But thanks for sharing your feelings.
@@miroslavhoudek7085 what do you mean by citations
@Vladimir Putin thanks for the definition good sir I thought dude wanted to give me a ticket 🎫 I’m in Mississippi I’ve been the whipping boy for slavery all my days hate the word with a passion
@@miroslavhoudek7085 ..
BLM... antifa. SJW's and other cry babies.
@Vladimir Putin and another thing,blacks
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Great video you’re by far my favorite of the new crew
This is a great video!
Very good journalism. Keep up the good work.
This is why we need to use hemp more widely for textiles. So much easier to grow and capable of growing in far more places.
Hemp bills will make good rolling paper
It's also cheaper, softer, warmer and more absorbant than cotton.
Or more fur farms....
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Nowadays Uzbekistan is not forcing child labour and people picking up cotton.This vedio is not clear well.Also all pictures in the vedio were taken decades ago
03:26 Islam Karimov goes before Shavkat Mirziyeev. They’re two separate human beings.
Yep, this needs correcting
And he is not really a dictator. He launched new reforms on
freedom of speech & protests. Corrupt politicans were banned and the power of the secret service was dimmed.
As an Uzbek, I do not quite agree with some points of view. The difference to the previous Regime is huge. It got so absurd in the last years of Karimov, it was beyond any common sense. I do not agree with the statement that Myrzyoyev is a dictator. If he stays more than two terms, I will consider him that way, too. Situation is difficult in Uzbekistan to put it mildly and I do not think that we are on the way of stopping the biggest problem we have, which is corruption. But I am anyway to have freedoms I have now in comparison to what we had during the previous regime. Not everyone sees it, but it is a lot more freedom in Uzbekistan today than 4 years ago. IMHO.
Yes, we have corruption and so many taxes now which is also corrupted. Also prices are skyrocketting.
Brothers, now I'm going to talk that the blogger's point of view is right by some reasons. Our candition isn't good enough and I think our governor's stile should be changed.
There are numbers of comments but You see even there's no comments except ours to reply any feedback for this video, and you know it's about our country 🤔!
it's a nice change from the US election
Who own targeta and condos?
A: father son Bushes?
B: husband and wife Clintons?
C: Trump?
Amazing work, the most informative video I have seen thus far on UZB. Thank you so much
Very informative, thanks! Plus the presenter is real asset to the channel - he is a keeper!
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Yay another video to binge
Woah! I didn't know these channels were related
you need to talk more about these smaller countries that people haven’t heard of
Hello. Thanks for the video!
Could you please share reference list of sources you used for your video?
The Stan's. Nice to see a little humor
A video about my country, finally :)
Its the second video
I watched this video while picking cotton on a John Deere 7760 picker.
🤣🤣
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Wow 😳 not surprised by any of the information .
Who knew cotton was White Gold
In southern Africa, I think there is a weed referred to as green gold
Uzbek's probably knew
Americans' a couple of decades ago.
@@rrider1998 hmmm ok
Yeah I always thought platinum was white gold, now I need a new cotton wedding ring
Hopefully Uzbekistan will be able to abolish the slave labor.
This vedio is not clear.I live in Uzbekistan.They have already abolished slave labour!
when I was 11years and in grade 7 primary school, I used to pick cotton in Central Province of the Republic of Zambia between 1995 - 1997. we would be removed from class and then taken to the local boers' cotton farms. It is normal and everyone was doing it in Kapiri Mposhi District even untill 2005. in Africa its normal job to do so that the local boer farmers can buy a football for the school. we would do such works for footballs, sports kits,
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Sadly, cotton production in the region has required the aral sea to be drained overtime and heavy use of pesticide leading to environmental, economic and health problems for the occupants in the surrounding area. Fortunately there has been a partial restoration but one of the worse residual effect is that a biological weapons research facility(Aralsk-7) on Vozrozhdeniya Island has become potential danger due to improper storage and shrinking sea leaving behind an environmental issue where sand storms blow up contaminated soil and salt. Yay to Centralized Soviet planning.
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Oh, I wish, I was in the land of cotton,
old times, they are not forgotten.
Look away! Look away!
A 24mins video about Uzbek cotton... nicceeee
19:39 awesome impression of Gollum. Even the teeth are the same 😂
Btw as someone who's a student trying to learn Spanish, is VisualPolitik EN and VisualPolitik diverging in the produced videos? Or maybe you guys decided to coordinate to not release videos in the same order. Either way, keep up the great work
Now that Hemp is becomming legal in many many countries and can be grown on any land anywhere in the world, short of ice caps, why not turn to hemp for fibre instead of cotton. I know it is not quite as soft but it is far far more durable and fertilizers, water and pesticides are not needed to grow it at all.
Also money used to be made out of it, paper and clothing... Hemp is here to help. Let's legalize it
Thanks for the video. But guys please please try to keep the valum of the music and the voices in middle go with Irish man voice 😊 it's killing me
Que hace este hombre con camisa floreada remplazando a fonseca?
Есть узбекистанцы?
O’zbekistonlila bomi?
Just a thought, but isn't land ownership in most countries owned by the state, or at least at one level of govt? Every year, I have to pay land rent to the govt or be removed from what I thought was my land (property taxes).
What is the title of the dramatic violin music used in this as well as many other VisualPolitik videos?
Uzbekistan, the Oman of Central Asia
9 ads from start to last...I am too poor to subscribe CZcams or donate on patreon let alone buy the cars they showed me in ad
well well, who would say that the consumer always have all the leverage.
if only more people realized this...
Leverage is useless if they dont have the information
@@alexturlais8558 yes, is useless if yout don't know you have leverage haha
This remind me of someplace in another continent two centuries ago...
Interesting
17:14 That's not ALL we're gonna look at right now. Hubba hubba! 😂
"..like all good colonizer was.." lol
Actually there has been a change I can say as someone from Uzbekistan. I lived in urban area so maybe I don't know if they are still doing "cotton practice " in rural areas, but people in countries are okay with that since they get paid nicely
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we know your very handsome, but do you really need to talk so close to the screen.
We need more government control, total government control, we can only ever trust the government, history of shown us more powerful government is the more moral it is... Those on top never over reach or abuse their power... Please please take care of us cradle a grave or rather before the cradle
You do good Russian accent, da!
I think this video has been made 1 year ago why are you remaking it ??
Dude you are confusing people) in history of Uzbekistan there were 2 presidents. Islam Karimov (1st) and it is him who let child laboring, slavery and corruption all over the place. 2nd President is Shavkat Mirziyayev and he reduced the taxes, increased salaries, stopped child labor and slavery. Overall things get much better with the 2nd president
What is that groovy beat being used throughout the video?
"To arms in Dixie land" plays in the back ground
No, you were wearing a shirt! I saw it!
At least they are making some progress.
15:20 - Tayikistan :))))
It took 24 minutes and 45 seconds to get to the titular topic of the video. Nonetheless I commend you for not splitting the video into two parts.
Also just commenting for the Almighty Algorithm.
Something tells me that demand for cotton in the production of money is soon going to drop like a rock.
I doubt the school trip is forced labor, farm work requires technique, a school trip does not help, even the opposite.
I grew up in northern China, when I was in primary school, we had school trip to plant trees, very young saplings along railroads and high ways, Each class only planted dozens. It was a day off school and so much fun, though later we heard from teachers that professional planters actually double checked and re-did lot of the work second day. Heard similar story from a friend from southern China, their school trip every year was going to tea plantation and pick tea leaves. Though later she learned that none of those picked by the kids can be sold, because they are really bad at it, many tea farms just let the kids keep all they picked and brought home. In fact, the school need to pay the tea plantation for the kids to go, since they also cause accidental damage to the tea trees.
if they had superior potassium like Kazakhstan, then Uzbekistan wouldn't have to rely so much on cotton.
i mean the toppic is interesting...but it seems like the videos Loos in Quality so much
doesn't central asia get extremely cold in the winter?
Xin Jiang is pronounced more "Sin" + "g/j - i/y - ang"
Yin Jiang!!! Come on! That's not a difficult one!
Whats new in this, a country got independent but still hanging on to legacy socio economic policies. Havent we seen it already .
I miss Simon 🥺
Lots of raven beauty there
When did xinjian became yenzhen?
You should do one on the Jade trade in Burma and the reason the government was overthrown so the rich Generals who own the Jade mines can continue doing what they are doing.
Considering many peace deals brokered and rather few new wars started, Your intro about POTUS is bit off.
True, they should redo so as to show he's just a "fake news" twittering narcissist blowhard. 😋
Too late now. Gotta make a biden one (sunglasses and confusion?)
Notification Squad !!
cringe
Your channel is so good but please, the rock music in the background ist just so extremely annoying.
Where is Simon???
I think this us where the US makes a deal with the Uzbek government that in exchange for political reform, free trade, and machinery needed for cultivation, the US government, Uzbek government, and Uzbek people split the proceeds of the cotton production 1/3 1/3 1/3. And once the 1/3 that the US receives exceeds the operational cost and material and personnel costs the money goes toward doing something similar somewhere else. Why isn't this already obvious to our politicians is also my question.
So the Soviets dried up the Aral Sea but your timeline shows it disappeared throughout the 90’s. Ok then
Combines are much less trouble
Here in Brazil president Bolsonaro has claimed some dubious things about the benefits of child labour too. It's sad.
So cute the Nike pronounced like Nyke. Nike comes from the Greek νίκη sounds like neekaay. So the final e Is always pronounced.
@VisualPolitik that's actually not true you can't multiply percentages like that you have to make sure they are of equal populations.
That’s the same reason that giant empty lake bed and fishing town are all now desert to divert water for cotton production
Growing cotton usually requires a lot of pesticides as well.
The Russians went from the Urals to the Pacific in like 50 years... pretty goddamn quick imo
can you do topics about the jews . israel? ... i see lot of video talking about asia africa and middle east...
Is that just one eyebrow in the thumbnail?
I'd guess most cotton farms in xinjiang, China are owned by ethnic Han Chinese who pay migrant labourers from other Chinese provinces to help then harvest it, taking into account the more than 8 million ethnic Han Chinese in xinjiang and not slavery.
What happened with your beard?
Isn't there a subspecies of cotton aka Hybrid cotton?
Hybrids aren't subspecies.
We have GM cotton in india
The Russian accent... just... no dude
xinjiang is pronounced like shinjiang not yinjiang
I'm here after the US ban on products which came out as result of slavery.
Xin Jiang sounds like ShIn Jiang. Unless he's trying to take the piss out of us.