2006-08-12
14:22:26
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Politics & Government
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Soviet_Invasion_of_Afganistan
The Soviet war in Afghanistan was a nine-year war between the Soviet forces and the anti-government Mujahideen insurgents that were fighting to depose Afghanistan's Marxist People's Democratic Party of Afghanistan (PDPA) government. The Soviet Union supported the government while the insurgents found support from a variety of sources including the United States and Pakistan.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/People%27s_Democratic_Party_of_Afghanistan
The People's Democratic Party of Afghanistan (in Persian: حزب دموکراتيک خلق افغانستان, in Pashto: د افغانستان د خلق دموکراټیک ګوند, PDPA) was a Soviet-aligned Marxist-Leninist party that ruled Afghanistan from 1978 to 1991.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Soviet_Invasion_of_Afganistan#Aftermath
2006-08-15
15:57:06 ·
update #1
Thanks Sugi. While I got the message of the video, my download is to slow to appreciate the full length of it. However I shall repost the link to this detail stickie.
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-5948263607579389947&q=alex+jones
It is 1 hour 52 minutes
2006-08-18
16:17:29 ·
update #2
As there is only 2 hours time remaining for this questions open status and the time extension option has expired, I must choose the BEST answer. While I agree with Keshi, I must go with the answer that has the most background data attached to it, and that answer is Sugi's. The video is a wee bit paranoid but understandably; how could we not be and survive.
As you may not be aware, at the time when the Taliban was fighting the communists, the USSR was backing out of Afganistan because its glasnost and parastroika policy did not match that of the Muslim communists, if there is such a thing. Shortly after or about that time the USSR became steeped in its own fanatic Muslim upsurgence. Perhaps they smirk at the USAs troubles. Remember Canada, we could have been next.
2006-08-20
11:59:52 ·
update #3