Word: afghanistan
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...receiving outside military aid. The Afghan war is not a superpower-confrontation, but a war between a superpower and a small, non-aligned nation fighting for it's survival and independence. It is, hopefully, also the last grand colonial war. The only way of imposing Pax Sovietica in Afghanistan is to bleed the nation to death. And that will take many more years...
...detrimental effect this colonial war is having on their society, in urgent need of modernization. It is my guess that the Soviets would like to get out of this messy Afghan situation. But they can't. Their puppet regime would not survive a Soviet withdrawal. A departure from Afghanistan would, in the Soviet mind, deal a blow to their strenuously achieved superpower position...
...DESTRUCTION OF NATIVE CULTURES has often been the aim of colonizing powers. It is doubtful whether it has ever happened on such a massive scale as in today's Afghanistan...
...conference held in Stockholm a year ago at the Swedish Institute of International Affairs, some of the best international scholars on Afghanistan listed the horrifying effects...
Some 25,00 Afghan children have been sent to the Soviet Union for 'education' in the obvious Soviet hope of creating a future pro-Soviet elite. Afghanistan's history is being rewritten in order to suit the new regime. Russian has been substituted for English as the first foreign language in Afghan schools. The rudimentary education system which existed in the countryside, where 80 percent of the population lives, has been swept away. Many of Afganistan's ancestral monuments, for example the mosques in Herat (considered as international landmarks by UNESCO) have been seriously damaged by the fighting...