Afghanistan: History Repeating Itself?
Dan Snow's History Hit
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Is There a Russian Plan to Invade Afghanistan?
After 18 forty two, dos mohommed actually becomes quite a reliable british ally. And certainly he doesn't invade again, and he keeps t ans out, as he'd promised to do. It's at toy a myth that russia was ever planning to invade india. There was some mutterings of it when napoleon sent a plan to the russians at tilsit. But they didn't go into afghanistan until disastrously in the 19 eighties.
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