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minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilinkEnglish84•1 day agoAfter 1979 - The hippie trail largely ended in the late 1970s primarily due to both the Iranian Revolution resulting in an anti-Western government, and the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan, closing the route to Western travelers.
minus-squareNoneOfUrBusinesslinkfedilink36•1 day agoI mean before the revolution Iran had a CIA-installed puppet government so… Yeah.
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilinkEnglish20•1 day agoFacism ruing everything, fascists replacing fascists ruin everything squared.
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilinkEnglish8•1 day agoWas fixing to muse about the Iranian revolution putting a stop to folks just passing through. Makes sense.
After 1979 -
Fascists ruin everything
I mean before the revolution Iran had a CIA-installed puppet government so… Yeah.
Facism ruing everything, fascists replacing fascists ruin everything squared.
Which was fairly progressive…
Europeans still use it
Was fixing to muse about the Iranian revolution putting a stop to folks just passing through. Makes sense.