Soviet invasion of Afghanistan
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- Ghost Wars whole source · open book
Disguised KGB paramilitaries were still chasing Hafizullah Amin through the hallways of his Kabul palace, Soviet tanks had barely reached their first staging areas
chapter: 2. “Lenin Taught Us”
- Overthrow - Americas century of regime change from Hawaii whole source · open book
On November 26, the Politburo secretly decided to send troops to Kabul, kill Amin, and impose a friendlier regime.
chapter: 12. They Will Have Flies Walking Across Their Eyeballs
- Overthrow - Americas century of regime change from Hawaii whole source · open book
On Christmas Eve, thousands of Soviet troops marched over pontoon bridges across the Amu Darya river into Afghanistan, and others landed at the airport in Kabul.
chapter: 12. They Will Have Flies Walking Across Their Eyeballs
- The Rise and Fall of the Great Powers whole source · open book
When Russian troops invaded Afghanistan at the end of 1979
chapter: The Fissuring of the Bipolar World
- The Grand Chessboard - American Primacy And Its Geostrategic whole source · open book
the debilitating war in Afghanistan from 1979 to 1989;
chapter: CHAPTER 4 - The Black Hole
- Esoteric Hollywood II: More Sex, Cults and Symbols in Film whole source · open book
According to the official version of history, CIA aid to the Mujahadeen began during 1980, that is to say, after the Soviet army invaded Afghanistan, 24 Dec 1979
chapter: Chapter 3) Hollywood Terror Dialectics
- Killing Hope: U.S. Military and CIA Interventions Since World War II pp. 275-277 · open book
The Soviet Union condemned the American invasion, comparing it to “a daring cavalry attack of armed-to-the-teeth white 29 Grenada 1979-1984 settlers on a village of Redskins”.
- Ghost Wars whole source · open book
Antonov transport planes loaded with Soviet airborne troops landed at Kabul’s international airport as darkness fell on Christmas Eve.
chapter: 2. “Lenin Taught Us”
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