"The Soviet-Afghan War — Common Misconceptions" Topic
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Tango01  | 08 Mar 2025 4:51 p.m. PST |
… About the Red Army ‘Invasion'
"ON DEC 25, 1979, elements of the Soviet Red Army rolled into Afghanistan kicking off nearly a decade of conflict in the Central Asian nation. The campaign soon bogged down into a bloody counterinsurgency war that pitted Russian-led forces against a Western-backed guerrilla army, the Mujahadeen.
Western politicians and the media were quick to cast the Soviet-Afghan Conflict as yet another front in the Cold War, or in even more simplistic terms: as a struggle between the Evil Empire and a rag-tag army of brave Afghan Freedom Fighters. Of course, such binary narratives obscured the true nature of the Soviet intervention. What's more, a number of stubborn myths about the Afghan resistance would cloud Western political thinking about the region and later have real consequences on the American-led effort to stabilize the country after the fall of the Taliban in 2001…"
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