For ten years the Soviet war in Afghanistan became the Soviet equivalent of the Vietnam War. By 1987 Soviet leader Gorbachev decided that the massive and unending losses in the Afghan war warranted a withdraw, which was accomplished in 1989. The Afghan government essentially abandoned upholding ...
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in many fields, putting the first man, first woman, and first satellite into space, defeating Hitler's Nazi Germany and winning World War II, together with the United States andUnited Kingdom, helping build infrastructure, as well as schools and hospitals in many third-world countries. However...
The invasions here understood as 1) direct military invasion 2)secret proxy war as in case of Israel, Laos, Vietnam, Angola etc, 3) aggression on independence movements in Baltic States, Caucasus, and Central Asia. More than 15 countries have been invaded and violated by the Soviet Union an...
The Soviet-Afghan War For decades, the Soviet Union had had its eye on neighboring Afghanistan. In 1978, the Saur Revolution in Afghanistan led to the murder of President Mohammed Daoud Khan and the creation of a new pro-Soviet government. Under President Nur Muhammad Taraki, the new communist...
All of this was exacerbated by festering sores overseas, especially a costly and stalemated war in Afghanistan and client-states that absorbed its resources (think: Cuba) while offering little in return. This list of Soviet problems, vintage 1986, should have a familiar ring to it, since it ...
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The Soviets got the message from Carter’s address and immediately responded in a TAAS News Agency editorial that: “‘Soviet goals abroad’ had been distorted as an excuse to escalate the arms race.’”[15] At a Nobel conference on the Cold War in the fall of 1995, Harvard/MIT Senior ...
Wimborne-Idrissi is part of a small clan. Their names are all known to us, because they are so few, and because the same faces appear in the media so often.Memory is ‘repetition and reinforcement’. Basic weapons in a propaganda war. Whenever a media outlet produces one of these propaga...
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