The Soviet-Afghan war, in my opinion, is a very important and forgotten part of history. I believe that this conflict was a very important because it was a crucial part of the cold war, and it helped shape the way the world was going to be in the future. Not only did it affect the cold war buy stopping the spread of communism in the Middle East, but it affected the future as well by creating the Mujahedeen, known today as the Taliban. Some say that this war was Russia's very own version of Vietnam. By the end of it, tens of thousands of soldiers were dead, and almost one million civilians lost their lives in the conflict.
The Soviet-Afghan war was a very complex war, lasting from 1979 to 1989. The overall goal for the Soviets was to turn Afghanistan into another satellite country, such as Cuba or East Berlin. They also wanted a foothold in the Middle East so the spread of communism had a greater reach than just Eastern Europe. In the end, the Soviet Union was not successful. The war had created a powerful opposition to the Soviets and the pro-communist Afghan army. This extreme Islamic opposition was known as the Mujahedeen. The war was kicked off when the Afghan president started to turn away from communism, and side with the west, leading to his assassination and the eventual invasion by the Soviet Union. Despite their strength in numbers, and (at the time) modern equipment, the Soviet Union had lost too much and was operations were starting to crumble in Afghanistan. Eventually, the Mujahedeen, with help from the American Central Intelligence Agency, was victories and the Russians withdrew. It was the winter of 1979, Afghanistan was engulfed by a civil war because the Prime Minister, Hafizullah Amin, wanted to lead the country away from its traditional Muslim way of life and set up a more western, modernized country. This outraged the dominant Muslim population of Afghanistan and led to mass arrests of Muslim leaders [Chr08].
Afghanistan Afghanistan, often called the crossroads of Central Asia, has had a turbulent history. ... Afghanistan is located in southern Asia. ... The capital city of Afghanistan is Kabul. ... Afghanistan's government was very fluctuant. ... The Writers Union of Free Afghanistan or WUFA's leader is A. ...
But it was the British and Russians who had the most effect. Due to its location between Russia and India Afghanistan had interest for both Empires. Having control of Afghanistan would create a buffer zone between Russia and interests, the British had, in India. Russia on the other hand wanted more territory. ... In 1978 a war occurred between the Russians and Afghan people. ...
"Victory is impossible in Afghanistan. ... NATO secretary general, Anders Fogh Rasmussen, announced that he is talking to Moscow about how the Russians could help with the mission in Afghanistan. ... "For historical reasons we will not see Russian boots on the ground in Afghanistan. But Russia can contribute in other ways. They can provide helicopters, they can also conduct training of Afghan security forces in Russia, we can co-operate on counter-narcotics," he said (Burns). ...
Afghanistan is located in Southern Asia, north and west of Pakistan, and east of Iran. ... Afghans have been fleeing from their country for years. ... Another 140,000 Afghans were internally displaced in western (70,000) and southern (70,000) Afghanistan because of drought. 76,000 Afghans came back to Afghanistan from Pakistan during 2000. ... Early in the 1980s, banished Afghans sent an armed force to the areas under Soviet rule which made Afghanistan into a battleground for the coldwar. ... By 1988 there was no law in Afghanistan. ...
Children in Afghanistan pick up butterflies and get their hands blown off. ... It also says in the article that some children are wise enough to avoid the brightly coloured, Russian-made explosives that resemble toys or butterflies. ... I think that's its almost making things worse by dropping things for certain areas of Afghanistan that may have land mines. ... If they would surrender then it would stop all the war and killing in the Afghanistan. ... Well that concludes my essay on Afghanistan children and what they must be going through right now. ...
In 1979, the then Soviet Union invaded Afghanistan, but after enduring years of a debilitating war against the Afghan resistance, Moscow withdrew the last of its troops in 1989. ... US had achieved one of its targets and that was Afghanistan but now there came more problems to be solved "The reconstruction of Afghanistan" and more over the "Reconciliation of Ethnic parties in Afghanistan". ... This mechanism would enable the Afghans to hold "free and fair elections, in accord with Afghan traditions," accompanied by a cessation of hostilities and an end to military assistance to all Afghan par...
World power must join together to fight terrorism. 2.0 Russian annexation of Crimea The Russian annexation of Crimea can be argued from a constructivism perspective. ... In reality, Russian costs that are damaging to their economy. In fact, Putin has intensified the cold war between the west and Russia that risk Russia losing it international reputation. ... Ukraine has over 90 percent of its citizen speaking Russian. Russian justification of protecting minority Russian speakers in Crimea justifies constructivism. ...
With North Korea on the terror list, Iran enriching uranium, Russia invading Georgia, NATO fighting Afghanistan, and a war going on in Iraq; you would think that WWIII is about to begin. ... Not many days hence, a war took place in Afghanistan. ... As of recently, Russia invaded Georgia, killing and wounding thousands. This is not to even mention the civil wars in Sudan, Ethiopia, Somalia, Rwanda, Uganda, Angola, Zimbabwe, the terrorist attacks in London, missile defense system tensions between the U.S. and Russia, nuclear handouts in India that angers China, Israel ...
The secret funding that was funnel to the rebels in Afghanistan. How the government, (CIA) looked at it, it was in the United States best interest to fund the rebels of Afghanistan to fight the Russians. Now the question we have to asked, why we helped the rebels of Afghanistan. The main answer to that question is because of the Cold War between the United States and Russia. Not realizing that the tools of war we funded the rebels of Afghanistan would in the years to come have a devastating affect against US Soldiers fighting against the Taliban. ...
