Uzbekistan is a country with a very long history. The Silk Road is as much a part of this history as its time as part of the Soviet Union. Today, Uzbekistan is independent. Its most important export is cotton. A large portion of the world's clothing is produced in Uzbekistan. Despite this, many people live in very simple conditions. The nomadic lifestyle is still a common sight in Uzbekistan.
When I was 11 years old, my father went to prison. It was the moment when our lives changed dramatically. Until then, we had been poor, but somehow a "normal" family from Tashkent in Uzbekistan. My father was Turkish and had worked as a driver, my mother was Russian and had taken care of me and my sister. But my father had not brought his earnings home, but had spent them on drugs, without which he soon could no longer live.When my peers had started school, I had had to stay at home, because my mother had not been able to afford school supplies or the school uniform for me. It had been terrible for me, but I had felt my mother's tears as even worse, her despair that my father's drug addiction was destroying our lives.
You will be amazed when googling Uzbekistan! Splendid mosques, bazars, plov (the national dish) - just Orient! However, Uzbekistan is more than Bukhara and Samarkand, and more than the caravans of the Silk Road. Uzbekistan - that's also life beyond the tourist highlights, life in places like Angren, a city slowly dying.
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