Hikma History | What Caused The Afghan-Soviet War? | Afghanistan Documentary @HikmaHistory | Uploaded December 2020 | Updated October 2024, 6 minutes ago.
Afghanistan has been in a state of war since 1979, when it was invaded by the Soviet Union. The world was gripped by the Afghan-Soviet War during the 1980s. But in order to understand why that war happened, we need to go further back into Afghan history; into a time period which is ironically considered a peaceful time in its modern history...

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0:00 Intro
1:20 Post-WWII Modernisation
5:47 Daud's Republic
8:51 Communist Takeover
11:24 Soviet Intervention