SummaryIn 1979 the Soviets invaded Afghanistan to expand it's communist empire. This closely modeled what the US were doing not even 5 years before in Vietnam. The people didn't want what they had to offer. Even though surrounding countries were communist it didn't work and all it did in turn was to end the détente period.
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“There is no single piece of land in Afghanistan that has not been occupied by a Soviet soldier . . . no single military problem that has arisen and not been solved, and yet there is still no result.”
Sergei Akhromeyev, Soviet General Staff Chief in 1986
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SummaryThe USSR fought the Mujahideen group in who were supported militaristically by the CIA. The Russian's money couldn't keep up to their losses so they eventually pulled out of Afghanistan.
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