The Afghanistan war and the breakdown of the Soviet Union

Afghanistan war.21 The Soviets intervened in Afghanistan in December 1979. In retrospect, it was unthinkable in 1979 that the Soviet empire could collapse, let alone fall apart almost within a decade. Though the Afghanistan war initially was visualized by Soviet leaders as a small-scale intervention, it grew into a decade-long war involving nearly

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