For more than three months prior to the main national holiday — Independence Day — Uzbek TV launched another patriotic video with participation of local stars that include Ozodbek Nazarbekov, Shakhzoda, Rayhon, Lola and others.

Being aired tens of times a day, the video is longer than a regular pop-clip. But the thing is that this is not a regular video — it’s dedicated to the twenty years that passed since Uzbekistan stopped being a part of Soviet Union.

The video is in the best traditions of state propaganda — the WE-ARE-THE-BEST-AND-HAPPIEST! and DROWN-IN-YOUR-OWN-JEALOUSY! signals can be read between the lines.

To explain the content of the video: apart from singers, you can see how the screen is divided into two parts — one side shows terror and children with guns and riots, another side shows happy Uzbek kids, the process of creation, newlyweds at a Mustakillik (Independence) square. It’s something that aims to make you think: “Who has never tasted bitter, knows not what is sweet.” Got it now?

The quality of pictures is the best of what my mobile phone’s camera could do. The video itself is not available online or in any music shop of the capital. Only on Uzbek TV, without any copies distributed, so that “enemies” will not seize the secrec video. :)