How did the Soviet Invasion of Afghanistan lead to the end of the Soviet Union and the Cold War?

Jan 03, 2008 by Cabinet Man | Posted in History

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The war in Afghanistan helped in weakening the USSR, but it wasn’t the only cause.

The war in Afghanistan cost the Soviet lots of money, & many casualties. This created many domestic problems in the USSR. As the war was going people in eastern Europeans were inspired to slip-up from the communist Iron fist. The star war project was also going on during the 1980s, & the Soviet tried to keep up the armament race. In the end the Russian brevity got very exhausted, & president Gorbachev decided to end the cold war & make peace with the west!

Soviet Union's invasion on Afghanistan....?

Mar 02, 2009 by oNE oF a KinD... | Posted in History

I have a retailing essay to write about how the soviet union's invasion affected afghanistan's economy today? Please tell me:

1. When did the invasion take place and when it ended?
2. What were the main effects on afghanistan's thrift?
3. Good websites to use for this essay?
thanks alot everyone! ;)

Its been 4 days so I fluctuate if you still need good websites but....

http://www.google.co.il/search?hl=en&q=history+of+Soviet+Union%27s+invasion+on+Afghanistan&btnG=Search&meta=

Quagmire: The Afghan War Tragedy

During the next week, Prime Churchman Key will have to decide whether or not to commit SAS troops to the interminable Afghan War. Is this counter-insurgency conflict winnable? No.

For the reason why, we requisite to cycle back thirty years to the initial Soviet invasion of Afghanistan, back in 1979. This saw the emergence of conservative Islamist mujahedin insurgency, at bottom funded from Saudi Arabia and madrassas (conservative Muslim theological schools) in neighbouring Pakistan and India. To fight off Soviet geopolitical ambitions, the west also encouraged Pakistan’s ISI to keep the fires burning, until Soviet withdrawal in 1989 terminated the accepted mission.

However, it had also exacerbated existing internal nationalist and Sunni/Shia Islamist religious tensions, which led to Afghanistan’s essential collapse into a failed and fragmented state. The Taliban took Kabul in 1997, and four years later, Osama bin Laden Euphemistic pre-owned it as an al-Qaeda base to attack the United States in 2001, at the cost of three thousand US lives when the World Marketing Centre was destroyed. The United States and allies promptly invaded Afghanistan, leading to a long-term indeterminate war. Bin Laden escaped to mountainous Northwestern Pakistan and is still there.

As for the ‘prowestern’ regime in Kabul, why is it that a r that was supposed to benefit human rights and civil liberties has just passed a so-called ‘Shia Family Maxims’ that legitimises spousal rape??!! Are these the human rights and civil liberties that our SAS men and women will be fighting to fortify?

I’m very much afraid that all we can do now is to lobby for an increase in western refugee and asylum quotas. Through western opportunism, the blow of Afghanistan is that their civil war and fragmentation may be irreversible. We owe it to those who want to flee the carnage to assist their passage, having created it in the first exemplification. And especially, I would place no barriers in the way of Afghan women or LGBT community members wishing to escape that nightmare.

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Russia video

unshackled-full-documentaries. blogspot.com this documentary is about the Soviet Unions invasion of Afghanistan and how a USA congressman funded the ...

Russia video

Documentary on the Soviet Invasion of Afghanistan made by Regan Bell and Chris Williams