The Soviet invasion of Afghanistan: war without end
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The International Response to the Soviet Invasion of Afghanistan
The Soviet invasion of Afghanistan is almost unilaterally condemned by countries across the world. A lot of Western states frame the Soviet invasion in Cold War terms and thinking about how it's made Afghanistan effectively a Cold War battlefield. African, Middle East and Asia react very hostilely to the invasion in the context of decolonization at the end of the European empires.
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