the soviet union took over afghanistan on december 28, 1979.
the soviet union took over afghanistan on december 28, 1979.
when did the soviet union take over afghanistan?
december 28 , 1979
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the us financed the training for the mujahideen warlords such as jalaluddin haqqani, gulbudin hekmatyar and burhanuddin rabbani eventually culminated to the fall of the soviet satellite the democratic republic of afghanistan. while the cia and mi6 and the people's liberation army of china financed the operation along with the pakistan government against the soviet union, eventually the soviet union began looking for a withdrawal route and in 1988 the geneva accords were signed between communist-afghanistan and the islamic republic of pakistan; under the terms soviet troops were to withdraw. once the withdrawal was complete the pakistan isi continued to support the mujahideen against the communist government and by 1992, the government collapsed. us president reagan also actively hindered the soviet union's ability to sell natural gas to europe whilst simultaneously actively working to keep gas prices low, which kept the price of soviet oil low and further starved the soviet union of foreign capital. this "long-term strategic offensive," which "contrasts with the essentially reactive and defensive strategy of "containment", accelerated the fall of the soviet union by encouraging it to overextend its economic base. the proposition that special operations by the cia in saudi arabia affected the prices of soviet oil was refuted by marshall goldman—one of the leading experts on the economy of the soviet union—in his latest book. he pointed out that the saudis decreased their production of oil in 1985 (it reached a 16-year low), whereas the peak of oil production was reached in 1980. they increased the production of oil in 1986, reduced it in 1987 with a subsequent increase in 1988, but not to the levels of 1980 when production reached its highest level. the real increase happened in 1990, by which time the cold war was almost over. in his book he asked why, if saudi arabia had such an effect on soviet oil prices, did prices not fall in 1980 when the production of oil by saudi arabia reached its highest level—three times as much oil as in the mid-eighties—and why did the saudis wait till 1990 to increase their production, five years after the cia's supposed intervention? why didn't the soviet union collapse in 1980 then?
history of the soviet union (1982–91)