I was curious why even a police state like the Soviet Union collapsed, and what lesson America could learn from that. And this is where it got strange, because the first thing Goncharov said to me when I met him was, “I just want to say to you that what ...
The author comments on a proposal for the neutralization of Afghanistan presented by Great Britain to the Soviet Union at a reconvened meeting of the United Nations (UN) General Assembly on February 29, 1980. The proposal is...
persecution迫害 gulaga prison camp where conditions are extremely bad and the prisoners are forced to work very hard. The name gulag comes from the prison camps in the former Soviet Union. (源自于前苏联的)古拉格劳改营 hellscape按hell和scape(景象)合成即可 ① 绝大多数圣战团体都主要是因为在当地受...
Sarin, Oleg L.: The Afghan syndrome: the Soviet Union’s Vietnam. Novato, Cal.: Presidio Press, 1993, 195 S. Google Scholar Weiner, Myron/Banuazizi, Ali (Hg.): The politics of social transformation in Afghanistan, Iran, and Pakistan. Syracuse, N.Y.: Syracuse University Press, 1993,...
Afghanistan was the scene of the defeat of the Soviet Union in the Soviet-Afghan war of 1979–1988. In the 1990s an extremist Islamic Taliban movement took control and allowed Osama bin-Laden and his Al-Qaeda to operate there and plan the September 11, 2001 attacks on the U.S. An ...
boundary. Along the boundary, the major ethnic groups are the Uzbeks, Tadzhiks, and Turkmen, each of which has a republic in the Soviet Union. About 1.4 million Uzbeks live on the Afghan side of the boundary, mostly in the central section. Tadzhiks are found in the eastern border area,...
This conflict has been said to be one of the major contributors to the fall of the Soviet Union. Written August 25, 2019 This review is the subjective opinion of a Tripadvisor member and not of Tripadvisor LLC. Tripadvisor performs checks on reviews as part of our industry-leading trust & ...
The idea that the Soviet Union was tricked in 1989-90 is at the heart of Russia’s confrontation with the west in Ukraine and no conclusion to that fight will take place without acknowledgment on the ground. That’s why any plan to drive Russia back to pre-February 2022 borders would be...
And yet when the 2014 deadline for transition arrives and, as Obama put it in his State of the Union Address last February, “our war in Afghanistan will be over,” the quiet professionals of the Special Forces and the CIA will remain behind. They will likely operate under much less rest...
Returning to Afghanistan we should discuss the early history of the propaganda broadcasts. According to Richard H. Cummings, formerly of Radio Free Europe, after the Soviet Union attacked Afghanistan in 1979, Radio Free Europe (RFE) and Radio Liberty (RL), the American financed stations in Munic...