Often called “the Soviet Union’s Vietnam War”, the conflict in Afghanistan began at Christmas in 1979 and dragged on for a further nine years, causing the deaths of over 25,000 Soviet soldiers and ...
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The Soviet Union’s War in Afghanistan
From 1979 to 1989, the Soviet Union fought a grueling conflict in Afghanistan that became known as the “Soviet Vietnam.” Soviet forces struggled against Afghan guerrilla fighters, the Mujahideen, who ...
The former U.S. and Soviet air base has been a central location for empires for thousands of years. Does Trump truly ...
The Soviet-Afghan War (1979-1989) was a grueling counterinsurgency conflict that tested the limits of—and ultimately broke—Soviet military might. Amid the rugged Hindu Kush mountains, where ground ...
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