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Soviet invasion Afghanistan
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The Soviet-Afghan War Explained: Why Did the Soviets Invade Afghanistan?
Yet the invasion was also a miscalculation. The USSR, which had spent years propping up Afghanistan’s communist regime, underestimated the resilience of Afghan...
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The Soviet-Afghan War: Why Did the USSR Invade Afghanistan?
Afghanistan, a landlocked nation sandwiched between Iran and Pakistan, had long been a pawn in the Great Game of imperial rivalries. By the late 1970s, the...
