In Broad Daylight

Tajikistan. Dushanbe city; people go to work; students in the classroom. Construction of a residential building. Operating room. Fruit harvesting; harvesting cotton with a cotton harvester. Pilgrims climb the "sacred" mountain, take ablutions, pray over the fire. Ram sacrifice. The self-proclaimed "saint" Jumaniyazov collects money from pagan pilgrims, gets into a car, and leaves. Rasulov, head of the inter-collective farm Rest House, who turned the Rest House into a refuge for pilgrims; the head of the Shaartuz region, Muslimkulov, the chairmen of the collective farms Khudoikulov, Mavlyanov, Navruzov, who have built an inter-collective farm health resort, do not prevent the spread of religious sectarianism in the region.

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Text by V. Selivanov, V. Vendelovsky