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Afghanistan
The project attempts to understand the causes of the Afghan War (1979-1989) and to provide the most truthful coverage of all its stages. On a cold day on December 12, 1979, a small circle of members of the Politburo of the CPSU Central Committee discussed the situation in Afghanistan. After much hesitation, four people (Leonid Brezhnev, Yuri Andropov, Andrei Gromyko, Dmitry Ustinov) made the fateful decision to send troops into Afghanistan. Thus began the Afghan campaign – the first and only military operation waged by the Soviet Union outside the Warsaw Pact countries, which became the longest and most “forgotten” war in Soviet history.
2019 1 season · 4 episodes Ended
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- War & Politics
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The combat losses of the Soviet troops in the first five years of the war with Afghanistan were the heaviest. The impossibility of resolving the Afghan conflict by force became increasingly obvious. After signing the Geneva Accords in 1986, M.S. Gorbachev announced the beginning of a phased withdrawal of Soviet troops. Which eventually became a symptom of the destruction of the bipolar world order and a prologue to the collapse of the Soviet Union...
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