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The National Interest on MSN2d
Why Did the Soviet Union Send Its Worst Tanks to Afghanistan?
The fact that the Soviets were using large numbers of their older tanks did not inherently mean that they were likely to lose ...
NPR3y
We Asked Vets Of The Soviet-Afghan War To Judge The U.S. Exit. Here's What They Said
"It's just a fact that if you want to evacuate a division, you need a week," says Opalev, who was among the last Soviet soldiers to withdraw from Afghanistan. "If you pull out an army of tens of ...
WarsofTheWorld on MSN10d
When 39 Soviet Soldiers Took on 250 Afghan Mujahideen
The Soviet-Afghan War raged for nine years and is considered a major part of the overarching Cold War between the US and its ...
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Afghanistan: 25 Years Later, Soviet Invasion Remembered As Cold War's Last Gasp
The Soviet Union invaded Afghanistan 25 years ago this month -- the first time since World War II that organized Soviet troops had been sent outside the bloc or Cuba.
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Ex-Soviet defectors still in Afghanistan
WASHINGTON -- Military experts said yesterday that as many as several hundred veterans of the Soviet war in Afghanistan may be fighting for rival ethnic groups in the Central Asian nation.
The Atlantic6y
The Truth About the Soviet War in Afghanistan
When the Soviet Union shocked the world by sending troops into Afghanistan 40 years ago this December, few Western observers guessed it was more thanks to accident and blunder than a conscious ...
NPR3y
A Look At Afghanistan's 40 Years Of Crisis — From The Soviet War To Taliban Recapture
Babrak Karmal is installed as Afghanistan's Soviet-backed ruler ... leaves about 1 million Afghan civilians and some 15,000 Soviet soldiers dead. Sponsor Message Millions of Afghans begin fleeing ...
PBS18y
The Soviet Occupation of Afghanistan
After World War II, as both the United States and the Soviet Union competed for global power, Afghanistan increasingly turned to the Soviet Union for support after the United States established ...
The Week10d
From Soviet trap to US exit: The full circle in Afghanistan
The Taliban, originally rooted in Pakistan and funded during the Cold War, rose amid global power games. Today, China invests ...
Business Insider2y
A failed war helped bring down the Soviet Union. Now Putin's failing war in Ukraine might set Russia up for a bleak future.
Soldiers brutalize civilians while state media presents the war as a noble humanitarian mission. The Soviet Union's war in Afghanistan and Russia's current war in Ukraine have obvious similarities ...
The National Interest1y
The Soviet Invasion of Afghanistan Should Guide Our Approach to Russia
Even in February 1989, while the last Soviet soldiers were departing from Afghanistan, President George H.W. Bush refused to commit to ending U.S. assistance to Afghan rebels who opposed the ...
Newsweek1y
Russia's Avdiivka Losses Higher Than Entire Soviet-Afghan War
The Soviet Union sent thousands of its soldiers into Afghanistan at the end of December 1979. The resulting conflict lasted nearly a decade, and estimates widely put the Soviet death toll at ...