Women in Kabul could wear Western clothes, but out in the country, not so much. I trained to be a Peace Corps Volunteer in the late 60s and we were told to not even mention or refer to any Afghan woman—wife, mom, sister—it could well cost us our lives. Yes, there were some Afghan prostitutes but even patronizing one of them could get us killed.
So if that was the ‘Golden Age’ to be looked back at nostalgically; it wasn’t all that golden in 95% of Afghanistan
Interesting. Thanks for posting that.