Apologies to anyone put off by the sponsor in this video. It was a new thing for me so I was still testing the waters, but I am going to use your criticisms in future if/when another video is sponsored.
Feature History don't worry about it. I'm assuming it takes time and money to make you're videos(which are of great quality). It should be fair for us non-patreon peasants.
using guns to push people toward "progressivism" is not a good idea.it's a right idea but not a good one.supply nut heads people with weapons to fight someone you don't like is also stupid.a country fate should be decided by its own people
I think the only thing i could point out that i didn't like about the insertion of that add was that you put it as a placeholder as part of your presentation. I know this comparisson is somehwat blown out of proportion, but as a part of the documentation to point to a part and say "this part can be explained by the [INSERT PAID SERVICE HERE]", and then not talk about it, fells like you are (tecnically) a putting small part of it behind a pay-wall and something is compromised for the add. I love your videos because they summarize the most important aspects from a scenario in an easy-to-follow fashion, show both parties actions and views from a neutral standpoint. I think you could use that to your advantage though and point to things like The Great Courses Plus whenever they have something that could understood better when explained in detail, while STILL keeping a short summary in the doku.
Yeah,right. Look at Rhodesia. They were fight commies but got vilified because they declared independence from Britian and we loaded down with UN sanctions.
@@arizonanrhodesian5313 Contries are how only powerful by 4 things. 1. Productivity 2. Can manufacturers 3. Military 4.How much gold they have (saved value)
As I'm an Afghan, these points which you mentioned are mostly wrong. The cold War was completely planned by America and Russia. America successfully did how to bring Russia to Afghanistan, and after how American can come to Afghanistan. It was completely planned by America, let me tell you something, why did you destroyed Afghanistan for one beneladin, and that was also living in your sons land Pakistan but for killing him you killed many afghans. Afghans are not a terrorists you are the one, and you only made taliban and AL qiadah and daish, you and Pakistan are the one who support and giving guns to taliban. Who killed Dr najibullah, CIA, KGB, ISI, SNN and other killed najibullah, inshallah we will take revenge of Shaheed Dr najib Ullah.
“Afghan people always have their hands on each other’s throats but when a foreign power invades their land they join hands and destroy the invaders” This was a quote by a British general when they tried to invade Afghanistan back in the day with muskets
Truly, I know because I myself am by ethnicity; a Pashtun. (Which make up majority of those fiercely independent people you hear about in Afghanistan and Pakistan). An Afghan would rather burn his wife and house down than give them to his brother.
@Bink* That doesn't answer my question, if it was Khorasan, was it led my Tajik ruler or Tajik emperor. As for Pashtuns in 3rd century, there is recorded history of Pashtun in a non Pashtun historian book, similarly is there an unbaise history book that talks about tajik history, I will be looking forward to know this.
Western countries and theirs puppet states like Turkey and Saudi Arabians makes chaos in Iraq Libya Syria Afghanistan Yugoslavia Egypt Yemen Somalia and so on .
America: we have to stop Communism USSR: we have to stop Islamic extremism America: we have to stop Communism USSR: America: we have to stop Islamic extremism
Most of the muslims fighting against the ussr were normal muslims who didn't want to live under ussr oppression, the ussr banned islam and muslims who wanted to practice their religion were horribly persecuted(especially in muslim majority areas like central asia), ussr then wanted to invade Afghanistan which would place more muslims in danger, so the muslims had to fight, it was not islamic extremism like isis or AQ that wants to unjustly rule the world , it was a defensive fight against oppression and injustice
@@irshadtarsoo7734 In USSR was freedom to believe in whatever you want as long as you don't force others to believe in it. And all the information about persecution of anyone for religion is a total fake
@@dadoogie I see. Very odd, but understandable given the political situation. Anyone who stood up to commies was our friend, as we'd soom come to realize isn't always true.
@@Calvin_Coolage Yeah, iit was just black emerald's post reminded me that it wasn't just an effort by the CIA and military to bolster the muhajadeen, it was also going on with civilians in the movies etc.
1 Brezhnew couldn't decide anything he was very sick at the moment. It was rather Politbureau descision. 2 it's not Red Army, but Soviet Army. It was called Red Army till 1946, then name being changed to Soviet Army.
yes because uneducated people will blame it on religion that's it when superpowers are the opressors as you can see people will talk politics but when an oppressed countries defend themselfs oohh it's islam !!!!!!
From what I remember reading the Soviet Union actually wanted nothing to do with afghanistan. But after the communist coup they felt obliged to assist a newly declared communist country that was directly on the soviet border. I remember reading something like when the russian diplomats begrudgingly turned up to their first meeting with the new afghan communist government they were embarrassed by how ridiculously over the top the afghans were being. Talking In long political rants like marxists of the 30s and 40s. Haven’t read it in sveral years but it was from the book Afgantsy by Rodric Braithwaite.
@@OfficialSilverMoon maybe, but it could be his genuine account of things separate from his spy life, and it shouldnt be ignored and cast aside as lie, even if it is, it should be taken into account
Afgantsy: The Russians in Afghanistan 1979-89 That is exactly how i imagined the Khalq Faction '78 communists of Afghanistan to be like. Only under the pressure of other eastern bloc nations that soviet union had accepted the new government. These new guys were extreme as hell, they are rumored to have planned for 100% literacy in afghanistan.
From what i've learned, the soviets didn’t really have that sort of military interest in Afghanistan in 1980-1988 until they found out about operation cyclone which was the code name for a CIA program to arm and finance the Afghan Mujahideen in Afghanistan from 1979 to 1992, prior to and during the military intervention by the USSR support of the Democratic Republic of Afghanistan. The mujahideen, who inspired and formed the Taliban and even Al-qaeda given that Bin Laden was one of the mujahideen fighters, were also supported by Britain's MI6, who conducted their own separate covert actions. The program leaned heavily towards supporting militant Islamic groups, including groups with jihadist ties, that were favored by the regime of Muhammad Zia-ul-Haq in neighboring Pakistan, rather than other, less ideological Afghan resistance groups that had also been fighting the Soviet-oriented Democratic Republic of Afghanistan administration since before the Soviet intervention. This was due to the 1979 U.S. embassy attack in Iran and the overthrowing of the U.S. back shah put back from 1953 to 1979 after the British and U.S. back coup d'état on the Iranian democratically elected Prime minister Mohammed Mosaddegh in 1953.
@@Chud1234 Not after they leave, while they were there. If a region is fractured and divided it cannot unite against them. Britain didn't carve them up for any reason but that.
the fun part is Rambo - someone who is supposed to displlay an american in an american movie - says that Afghanistan is impossible to conquer... guess America didnt believe itself.... they just really wanted to try
Watch the movie Charlie Wilson's War. Murica gave the Afghans stinger missiles so the Russians couldn't just fly over and destroy them with helicopters. The best Tom Hanks movie that nobody saw. + Philip Seymour Hoffman + Julia Roberts
hossin maddoh you saw that when the soviet (not russia) start invading, by request, the country was already screwed. if you want to blame someone, blame the Taliban
This really is one of the best history channels on TH-cam. I'm not even mad that they come out so rarely, because the videos are so well done. Keep up the good work
actually it was not that nice, unless ur were a upper class PASHTUN. the other ethnicities were left poor and backwards. in those 10 yrs they didnt make one book in the languages of ethnic minorities (Uzbeks, turkmen, baluch etc) and as a result they were left illiterate. they also pushed on pashtun nationalism and tried to promote pashtun language over persian which failed miserably. that is the reason why most fought against them, the man ahmad shah massoud was a secular but he fought because there was cruelty against non pashtuns etc. even today the US puppet government is run by pashtun nationalist, The 2 presidents(hamid karzai, ashraf ghani) several times called taliban their brothers.
It was more than eight years, but the issue of modernization and westernization has always been a clash of cultures and ways of thinking in Afghanistan. In most large and major cities even now, most men and women are modern in terms of dress and the way they live their lives. The problem of social backlash always came from rural areas, where there's no formal state structure or rule of law. The problems with men like Khan, Amin, Karmal, and Najibullah always had no legitimacy in the eyes of a majority of the people. IMO, that's because all of their efforts at progress came from the top down, not the bottom up. They always jailed or killed their opponents, there was no real effort to actually negotiate with those rural areas, or pull people away from the power bases that gave say, rural leaders and clerics support. You might see those pics online of "Oh, here's what Afghanistan looked like before the Taliban" all over the internet, and it gives this appearance that the whole country was this modern oasis of rights and western freedoms. In Kabul, yes. In major cities, mostly yes. But I can show you different photos taken the same year as the others, of women in full burkas walking around in Kabul and major cities. Even in the late 70's, when the most radical communists were in power, some women still wore the burka. If there's no bottom-up approach as to telling these people why basic rights and freedoms are important and beneficial to all, modernization will never happen. It also has to happen slowly. You have to husband and garnish people to your way of thinking, it takes months if not years, or decades to do. These modernization/westernization efforts actually go all the way back to the 1940's. If you want an interesting story to read, I'd recommend reading "No Good Men Among the Living", by Anand Gopal. There's a story in there of a woman who grew up in Kabul under the communists, she went to college getting a degree in economics, was trained as a midwife and in some basic nursing skills and lived a very good life. But once the war started in '79, her and her husband fled to Urozgan Province, which is in the center of the country, but it has strong linkages via familial networks to the south, Kandahar. Which has always been a very tribal place. Her story goes from her living a good life, to becoming a burka-covered housewife in this rural village. She wasn't even allowed to speak to men through the door of the home she lived in. Surely enough as the years went on, she became a prisoner of the regressive Islamic culture there. There was a case in the book of a neighbor woman who was murdered by her mother-in-law because she "dishonored the family" because she talked back when her husband took a second wife. In these rural areas, women don't leave the home - ever. In an emergency, she has to have a male blood relative with her to leave, and she can only leave with either her father or husband. And you don't *ever* ask a male relative how his wife or daughters are. It all comes down to Islam's obsession with control over women, and the "honor" culture that's been sewn into Afghanistan's history because of it. Keep in mind, Afghanistan was once a country with a large number of Sikhs, Hindus, Zoroastrians, even a good-sized Christian and Jewish population before Islam came in and destroyed all that pluralism. If Islam hadn't come into Afghanistan, it would be no more fucked up a country than say, modern day Ukraine. It's ironic, the men who practice this culture the most, the Pashtuns, are said to be fierce warriors and defenders of their families. Yet now they're all strict, conservative Muslims. They've adopted a culture and religion that isn't theirs and it's utterly destroyed and retarded what could have been an amazingly modern and pluralistic country.
Robert C understanding Afghanistan through western eyes is almost impossible. What you define as "Islamic Culture" is more of an Afghan thing not an Islamic. You doesn't seem to understand that Afghanistan is first Afghanistan than a Muslim country. Britian is first Britain than Christian, if they still are religious. Secondly, the burqa is important to some rural people because it is a reflection of Afghanistans 1000ds of years history, not bec of Islam. Since ancient times foreign invention in Afghanistan meant rape and destruction, so to make your family and wife safe, you had them to "lock up". Especially since Afghanistan is country frequently invaded much more than other. To me und you it sounds ancient and uncivilized, but to your avarege rural farmer, who was born and has seen two invasions already, his father has seen one and his grandfather has seen one, it is their daily life. Plus ther is this recently brought wahabism from Saudi-Arabs to Afghanistan bringing this kind of thinking even to further extremes. I don't say it has absolutly nothing to do with Islam but saying it's just cause of Islam is a weak way to build an argument upon. The world isnt just black and white.
@Doni Habib Nurmagamdov Khrosoni How about you fk off and take care of your tajerkistan and let us Afghans worry about Afghanistan. Besides, whatever you said is total BS. President & Prime Minister Daud Khan spoke in Dari(Afghan Persian) in US congress when he went there for a visit during his term. If he hated Dari then why the fk would he speak it and whatever interview you see of him, he always speaks Dari and same goes today. We(Pashtuns) are not racist or fascist, it's just that Pashtuns are more conservative and they don't care for language and culture and they will adopt anyones if they feel like it fits them , and that's why Herat is a Dari speaking Province but majority are Pashtuns same goes for other provinces. We don't care for language and if non ethic Pashtuns would be speaking Pashto now because we always have been in power. US supported warlords from 2001 till 2016 but nothing was achieved and they had to change their views and now are supporting a moderate and progressive Pashtun whose wife is Lebanese Christian(whom you people call Jewish and infidel) and speaks Dari not Pashto. See if Ashraf Ghani(The current president) hates Dari so much then why did he let his wife learn the language and speak it wherever she goes? So stop being a cu*t and stop spreading Propaganda.
@@neonknight-1522 No, not really in the 50-60s it was actually doing well and was progressive. It had a lot of potential to be a great country. Due to government corruption and foreign power's interest in Afghanistan, it has left it in a constant cycle of fighting for 40+ years. That's why Afghanistan is currently in the stone age.
@@joshouajones4043 No. Incredibly wrong. Afghanistan at its height was a trade hub for the silk road. The Mongols irreversibly fuckes it back to an agrarian tribal society that it never recovered from. From then on only a few cities where they had suezrain over tribes existed. They haven't fielded an army since they days of durrani (not counting the current ANA)
@@ProtomanButCallMeBlues th-cam.com/video/kQURz9aPAhI/w-d-xo.html ?????? Wtf? Lmao. Coming in here like you got all the facts. Jesus Christ there's nothing worse than someone who is ignorant trying to act like a know it all by making up shit.
It’s crazy how the B02 campaign where you fight with the Mujahideen isn’t just random shooting. U use US rockets to shoot down Soviet helicopters to stop their advance just like what actually happened strategically. Amazing job to the game developers for adding such historical accuracy to the mission when a mission of just shooting random people would have easily sufficed
Cod games got me into history. BO1 and BO2 had you fighting in vietnam, afghanistan, panama, kazakhstan, angola, and all sorts of events were based on history. Good stuff
no lol they did not turn back they were still used by the US as pretext to declare war against Afghanistan just to invade the country knowing that 9/11 was an inside job "please tell me how the fuck can 2 planes put down 3 buildings ?!"
Fun fact: Bin Laden left Afghanistan in late 2001 (Battle of Tora Bora) for Pakistan, making the conflict that ensued pretty pointless. But Pakistan is the USA's ally......... Riiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiight.
Another disappointing fact: Bin Laden was actually recruited by the CIA in 1983-84, in order to funnel the weapons & dollars to keep the red army busy.
@@Holdmybeef Wait,...what?? Bin laden didnt like the fact that US was building military bases in Saudi Arabia. Thats why he had beef with the US. It was all due to US foreign policy toward the Arabs and the middle east
It's a really interesting subject if you dive deeper into it, this video is just an incredible oversimplification of it, not taking away that it was a great video. A war that doesn't get much attention and deserves more.
it kinda makes sense though, Australia doesn't really have anything interesting in its history besides being a penal colony of Britain and losing a war to birds. so of course they would learn a lot of other nation's history because you gotta fill those history textbooks with something.
You'reThatMantis History in Australian schools is lacking if you seek any sort of marginally relevant topics but overflowing if you seek to be flogged with the battle of Gallipoli
I love the attention to detail - Lee Enfields and Type 56 assault rifles for the Mujahideen, AK-74s for the Soviets and Afghan government troops. Well played sir.
Welcome to the post Fall-of-Kabul era. We can savely say that the post 9/11 era is no more. And what a ride it has been. Like a bad fever dream, only that the doctor has prescribed magic mushrooms against the fever.
When people say only about soviet army in Afganistan fighting terrorists supported by US and don't speak why did US support terrorists *stealthy american noises
@@Garviel_Loken. they were supporting the Mujahideen. Wait no, to sum it up for you I give you this US perspective: -Soviet invade Country= More Soviet influence -Random people who want to fight Soviet= No Soviet influence US: I don't give shit who those guys are as long as they fight the Reds they're the good guys yeah, they don't care who they support as long they're not in Soviet influence they got all the support they wanted
MrSynet easy all you need to really know is people turned to alcohol to ignore the problems of severe poverty lack of food poor leadership oh and a near dead economy
@@jugofmilk41 The Soviet Union was mainly destroyed due to Chernobyl. The Soviets had to withdraw most troops from Afghanistan to focus on the nuclear accident.
1922 год: Ленин создал СССР. 1939: Пакт Молотова и Советско-Финская война. 1941: Гитлер нарушил пакт Молотова. 1945:год: Сталин разгромил третий рейх. 1979: Афганистан. 1991: Распад СССР. Самое интересное, что я вспомнил, после смерти Сталина СССР скатился от истинной социалистической державы в капиталистическом подобие социализма.(И да, за "Сталинские" репрессии был ответственен Хрущев)
@Jon Doe lol if you think usa will sttay forever you are delusional eventually it will fail like all countries will a new country or coutnries will replace its place someday
Afganistan is the true GOAT. Won against the USSR, USA while losing almost every battle. ok ok jokes aside Gurilla warfare carried out by a motivated group(usually religion) is a hell of a weapon
Russia wasnt got fucked in Afghanistan, look the casualitis of sides, russia leaved afghanistan(like usa in vietnam but more seccessfully). And Russia won Chechen war.
I was in northeastern Afghanistan and the Navy had geological survey maps showing insane amounts of lithium. Countries like China and India are readying to pounce in the wake of global lithium demand.
@@seonderadam3898 Thats the thing, u cant defeat an enemy that sees paradise at the end of the barrel, wt else are they going to lose? they just keep on fighting while knowing their loses, Im quoting the last sentence when the british attacked afghanistan
I love how the soviet flags were given what are clearly very well drawn ak74m rifles while the mujahideen was given well drawn akm rifles very nice accuracy there
@@felixking2546 at least one trillion worth of minerals mind you. www.nytimes.com/2010/06/14/world/asia/14minerals.html Afghanistan in addition to its strategic geographical position, holds many natural resources (of which oil and gas) which could have been clearly sufficient for its population to live very comfortably. Be wary of a seemingly desert landscape.
gave them an excuse to eventually invade afghanistan which is rich in rare earth elements, a market currently dominated by china. although it served their interests in the long run i don't think anybody was thinking about it at the time
Now this is a master piece. I am surprised and pleased to see that even the guns in this video are correct - Type 56 for Mujahedeen and AK-74 for Soviets.
"And no foreign power would intervene" Legit every single super power: OK we will *totally not intervene* with Afghan affairs and defiantly not deploy our troops into Afghanistan, continuing a civil war. Also them: *He he he, like THATS ever gonna happen....*
ERROR at 8:30mins: General Ahmad Massoud was murdered by two assassins posing as cameraman and interviewer - they were NOT sent by the Taliban. They were sent by Afghan Warlord Abdul Rasul Sayyaf who both suggested the interview and vouched for their fake credentials. Philippine terror group Abu Sayyaf is named after him Abdul Rasul Sayyaf trained the 1993 WTC bomber, Ramsi Yousef. Sayyaf trained and mentored Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, the 9/11 mastermind Sayyaf mentored Osama Bin Laden and was the first to offer him & al Qaeda sanctuary in Afghanistan Sayyaf sent the assassins to murder Massoud on 9th Sept 2001 Sayyaf is a Saudi sponsored Wahhabi Warlord Sayyaf ran for President of Afghanistan in 2014 Today Sayyaf is in Saudi Arabia discussing international terrorism
thats the kind of youtuber this site needs, freely saying what any youtuber actually wants to say to his scum subscribers and spiting on them after. Subscribed
Would definitely recommend reading William Polks violent politics. Covers Vietnam and Afghanistan not to mention American war of independence. Incredibly interesting and useful.
@@goldenbrothers5579 Sure but no exactly. The terrorism began after 2001, when Israel started her agenda. The terrorism is hoax not real, or in other word, is pawn.
@@CursedDepartmentEastOffice Who turned al Qaieda from being rebels into terrorists ? Dont tell me islam made them terrorists, because al Qaieda killed so many muslims than non muslims. Your government is devil.
Small correction: The Taliban didn’t kill Massoud. Two Tunisian nationals did, likely under orders from Osama or some other international player like Pakistan. The Taliban didn’t have that kind of network.
I like your light-hearted comedic style of presentation, but yet still sending strong message the the common people suffer from consequences of All Wars.
Also the DRA didnt recongnize the Durand Line and took a hardline stance on it. if you look at maps in the DRA they would have dotted lines on the durand line
its the byzr there is no war on terror.....in Afghanistan they are after opium...in middle east they are after oil and maybe try to expand israel borders....after/if they succeeded
Love your videos (watched all of them). However, what to make a little mention on 4:40 of this video. In 1979 the army of Soviet Union was called Soviet Army (1946-1991), not Red Army (1922-1946).
RIP To the 75,000-90,000 Afghan Mujahideen fighters, 5,775 Pakistani troops, 1-3 million Afghan civilians, 14,453-26,000 Soviet troops, and 58,000+ Afghan (DRA) troops who were killed in the Soviet-Afghan War
afghanistan was worse for the invaders than vietnam. the soviet union collapsed because of their invasion. even up today, russia has lost much of its credebility because of their defeat in afghanistan. while the usa is still around after their vietnam war. all of communism died against afghanistan. while capitalism is still dominant in the west and some other countries.
not really , Communist government was highly unpopular in Afghanistan , and it was people who rose against them after land reforms, but majority became against them when they asked USSR to come to Afghanistan.
"almost nobody think we were wrong" Shut the fuck up. The only people supporting you are third world anti American dipshits who were never hit by the conflict personally. Most Afghans hate you as much if not worse then the US since you murdered more of their civilians on purpose, and anyone who does not have their heads up a commies ass calls you out.
People here seem to have forgotten "The enemy of my enemy is my friend" The USA afghan relation was nothing new or unusual. That's how war develops sometimes.
Apologies to anyone put off by the sponsor in this video. It was a new thing for me so I was still testing the waters, but I am going to use your criticisms in future if/when another video is sponsored.
Feature History Should put it at the end. Also, do one on the Peru-Bolivian war, so we can see a war bescause of bird shit.
Feature History don't worry about it. I'm assuming it takes time and money to make you're videos(which are of great quality). It should be fair for us non-patreon peasants.
Usually a shorter plug is more effective.
using guns to push people toward "progressivism" is not a good idea.it's a right idea but not a good one.supply nut heads people with weapons to fight someone you don't like is also stupid.a country fate should be decided by its own people
I think the only thing i could point out that i didn't like about the insertion of that add was that you put it as a placeholder as part of your presentation.
I know this comparisson is somehwat blown out of proportion, but as a part of the documentation to point to a part
and say "this part can be explained by the [INSERT PAID SERVICE HERE]", and then not talk about it, fells like you are (tecnically) a putting small part of it behind a pay-wall and something is compromised for the add.
I love your videos because they summarize the most important aspects from a scenario in an easy-to-follow fashion, show both parties actions and views from a neutral standpoint. I think you could use that to your advantage though and point to things like The Great Courses Plus whenever they have something that could
understood better when explained in detail, while STILL keeping a short summary in the doku.
If you're anti communist during the cold war, you received aid from the us, it doesn't matter if you're a terrorist or a dictator
One man's enemy is another man's friend.
@@DemonDragonGD Until that friend backstabs you for trusting him too much
@@GoofyCombat Who said I trust him.
Yeah,right. Look at Rhodesia. They were fight commies but got vilified because they declared independence from Britian and we loaded down with UN sanctions.
@@arizonanrhodesian5313 Contries are how only powerful by 4 things. 1. Productivity 2. Can manufacturers 3. Military 4.How much gold they have (saved value)
You forgot the part where John Rambo rescued his imprisoned friend.
As I'm an Afghan, these points which you mentioned are mostly wrong. The cold War was completely planned by America and Russia. America successfully did how to bring Russia to Afghanistan, and after how American can come to Afghanistan. It was completely planned by America, let me tell you something, why did you destroyed Afghanistan for one beneladin, and that was also living in your sons land Pakistan but for killing him you killed many afghans. Afghans are not a terrorists you are the one, and you only made taliban and AL qiadah and daish, you and Pakistan are the one who support and giving guns to taliban. Who killed Dr najibullah, CIA, KGB, ISI, SNN and other killed najibullah, inshallah we will take revenge of Shaheed Dr najib Ullah.
Izat rahman he wrote a joke chill
That was the longest insult ever.....
WTF is wrong with you.
And then a gigantic biped robot started to walk around trying to kill rambo
@@izatrahman4108 they got internet in Afghanistan
“Afghan people always have their hands on each other’s throats but when a foreign power invades their land they join hands and destroy the invaders”
This was a quote by a British general when they tried to invade Afghanistan back in the day with muskets
Truly, I know because I myself am by ethnicity; a Pashtun. (Which make up majority of those fiercely independent people you hear about in Afghanistan and Pakistan). An Afghan would rather burn his wife and house down than give them to his brother.
@@hamzashinwary4215 im ethnically tajik
@@pixiethecanary7666
Whats the history of Tajiks at least the world knows Pashtun history and Pashtun empires.
@Bink*
That doesn't answer my question, if it was Khorasan, was it led my Tajik ruler or Tajik emperor. As for Pashtuns in 3rd century, there is recorded history of Pashtun in a non Pashtun historian book, similarly is there an unbaise history book that talks about tajik history, I will be looking forward to know this.
Punjabi’s are more mightier and tougher than any ethnic group
2:38
Communist Afghanistan: "We need a new flag."
Soviets: "Borrow ours but change it so people don't think it's a copy."
Western countries and theirs puppet states like Turkey and Saudi Arabians makes chaos in Iraq Libya Syria Afghanistan Yugoslavia Egypt Yemen Somalia and so on .
@@timurtimur53 Dude shut up.
@@timurtimur53 Most of those countries were already in turmoil before the US got involved.
Communist (insert country here) "we need a new flag"
Soviet flags: "allow us to introduce ourselves"
but look at 4:44. They got rid of their amazing flag, and me!
don't forget the Soviets also had to deal with snake running around messing with there operations at the time
Yeah, being Stunned and Fultoned to an oil rig must be annoying.
I expected the comment. I wasnt disappointed.
Kanav Kapoor Hahaha nice reference LoL
It was snake who was responsible for all them helicopters dropping like flies'
Yeah And the snake dont bite taliban only american
To sum it up: How the Soviet and the US trapped themselves in an unending cycle of 'shooting themselves on the foot'
America: we have to stop Communism
USSR: we have to stop Islamic extremism
America: we have to stop Communism
USSR:
America: we have to stop Islamic extremism
PaperMind true doe
Most of the muslims fighting against the ussr were normal muslims who didn't want to live under ussr oppression, the ussr banned islam and muslims who wanted to practice their religion were horribly persecuted(especially in muslim majority areas like central asia), ussr then wanted to invade Afghanistan which would place more muslims in danger, so the muslims had to fight, it was not islamic extremism like isis or AQ that wants to unjustly rule the world , it was a defensive fight against oppression and injustice
@@irshadtarsoo7734 the christian orthodox too i think oppressed by the ussr..but now russia is a christian orthodox country..not a communist
@@irshadtarsoo7734 turned so bad though
@@irshadtarsoo7734 In USSR was freedom to believe in whatever you want as long as you don't force others to believe in it. And all the information about persecution of anyone for religion is a total fake
You didnt mention who Bin laden was trained by the lovely CIA..and his armies was all supplied weapons to fight the soviets.
Or the american's named one of the space shuttles after the fighters. Or that Hollywood even romanticized their shit in that bond film and even rambo.
@@dadoogie The hell are you on about with the Space Shuttle thing?
@@dadoogie I see. Very odd, but understandable given the political situation. Anyone who stood up to commies was our friend, as we'd soom come to realize isn't always true.
@@Calvin_Coolage Yeah, iit was just black emerald's post reminded me that it wasn't just an effort by the CIA and military to bolster the muhajadeen, it was also going on with civilians in the movies etc.
@@dadoogie I get it, yeah. Very interesting time in history.
1 Brezhnew couldn't decide anything he was very sick at the moment. It was rather Politbureau descision.
2 it's not Red Army, but Soviet Army. It was called Red Army till 1946, then name being changed to Soviet Army.
noooooo, we needed it to still be called the Red Army
Red Army sounds cooler
😂 the first time I came across this word “Red Army” as a child I always thought they were all draped in red uniforms
But the west claims still consider the Soviet army the Red army until the cold war.
@Burleon to be precise it used to be called Workers and Peasants Red Army until it changed to Soviet Army.
Afghanistan:
Graveyard of Empires.
Better say the western empiers
Better say an absolute shithole that thinks too much about itself
Don't forget Vietnam
macedon reference isn't it...
@@harrycheng9348 Mostly its own people
When you finally find a comment section that speaks about politics instead of blaiming it on religion.
Blaming*
yes because uneducated people will blame it on religion that's it when superpowers are the opressors as you can see people will talk politics but when an oppressed countries defend themselfs oohh it's islam !!!!!!
Religion as in Marxism. Is just as bad
Teri Kay religion wins
Religion was a factor in the creation of some of these groups but like all ideologies it is merely a political tool in the grand scheme of things.
From what I remember reading the Soviet Union actually wanted nothing to do with afghanistan. But after the communist coup they felt obliged to assist a newly declared communist country that was directly on the soviet border. I remember reading something like when the russian diplomats begrudgingly turned up to their first meeting with the new afghan communist government they were embarrassed by how ridiculously over the top the afghans were being. Talking In long political rants like marxists of the 30s and 40s. Haven’t read it in sveral years but it was from the book Afgantsy by Rodric Braithwaite.
That's actually fake propaganda as Rodric Braithwaite was a british diplomat and foreign spy.
@@OfficialSilverMoon maybe, but it could be his genuine account of things separate from his spy life, and it shouldnt be ignored and cast aside as lie, even if it is, it should be taken into account
Afgantsy: The Russians in Afghanistan 1979-89
That is exactly how i imagined the Khalq Faction '78 communists of Afghanistan to be like. Only under the pressure of other eastern bloc nations that soviet union had accepted the new government. These new guys were extreme as hell, they are rumored to have planned for 100% literacy in afghanistan.
From what i've learned, the soviets didn’t really have that sort of military interest in Afghanistan in 1980-1988 until they found out about operation cyclone which was the code name for a CIA program to arm and finance the Afghan Mujahideen in Afghanistan from 1979 to 1992, prior to and during the military intervention by the USSR support of the Democratic Republic of Afghanistan. The mujahideen, who inspired and formed the Taliban and even Al-qaeda given that Bin Laden was one of the mujahideen fighters, were also supported by Britain's MI6, who conducted their own separate covert actions. The program leaned heavily towards supporting militant Islamic groups, including groups with jihadist ties, that were favored by the regime of Muhammad Zia-ul-Haq in neighboring Pakistan, rather than other, less ideological Afghan resistance groups that had also been fighting the Soviet-oriented Democratic Republic of Afghanistan administration since before the Soviet intervention. This was due to the 1979 U.S. embassy attack in Iran and the overthrowing of the U.S. back shah put back from 1953 to 1979 after the British and U.S. back coup d'état on the Iranian democratically elected Prime minister Mohammed Mosaddegh in 1953.
Watching this in the middle of August 2021 hits different
taliban overthrowing the government
The tl;dr of a lot of these wars always seems to be the British are bad at drawing maps, lol
And French...
@@Chud1234 bull fucking shitz what they did to Punjab displaced so many people and 60% of Sikhs lived in west panjab and moved to east there was peace
Golden Memes he was being sarcastic
@@Chud1234 Not after they leave, while they were there. If a region is fractured and divided it cannot unite against them. Britain didn't carve them up for any reason but that.
So in order to stop wars from happening we should give these lands back to the British
(Yes I know this comment is 1 year old)
"I declare myself president and prime minister"
Everyone: Hmmmm
Why hasn’t Rambo received any credit? This is a disgraceful omission.
the fun part is Rambo - someone who is supposed to displlay an american in an american movie - says that Afghanistan is impossible to conquer... guess America didnt believe itself.... they just really wanted to try
Watch the movie Charlie Wilson's War.
Murica gave the Afghans stinger missiles so the Russians couldn't just fly over and destroy them with helicopters.
The best Tom Hanks movie that nobody saw.
+ Philip Seymour Hoffman
+ Julia Roberts
Stupid!! Real heroes are mujahideen ... mulla omer
Why didn't Boss recieve credit either? He killed a bunch of Russians and stuff.
Ghulam Qadir Mujahadeen made Afghanistan an islamic terrorist country
Last I was this early Putin was a KGB agent
Fuck Russia we Afghan people whatever problem we have to this day is because of Russia's invasion. I hope one day we can get our revenge.
hossin maddoh you saw that when the soviet (not russia) start invading, by request, the country was already screwed. if you want to blame someone, blame the Taliban
What about the suppliers?
To quote Putin himself "there's no such thing as a former KGB man."
hossin maddoh the country that attacked you was the soviet union
Now its gone you already had your revenge
This really is one of the best history channels on TH-cam. I'm not even mad that they come out so rarely, because the videos are so well done. Keep up the good work
The little details like the Enfields changing and the Soviets using AK74s make me happy :)
I wonder what it was like living in Afghanistan for those 8 years where society was secular and women attended university...
actually it was not that nice, unless ur were a upper class PASHTUN.
the other ethnicities were left poor and backwards. in those 10 yrs they didnt make one book in the languages of ethnic minorities (Uzbeks, turkmen, baluch etc) and as a result they were left illiterate. they also pushed on pashtun nationalism and tried to promote pashtun language over persian which failed miserably.
that is the reason why most fought against them, the man ahmad shah massoud was a secular but he fought because there was cruelty against non pashtuns etc.
even today the US puppet government is run by pashtun nationalist, The 2 presidents(hamid karzai, ashraf ghani) several times called taliban their brothers.
It was more than eight years, but the issue of modernization and westernization has always been a clash of cultures and ways of thinking in Afghanistan. In most large and major cities even now, most men and women are modern in terms of dress and the way they live their lives. The problem of social backlash always came from rural areas, where there's no formal state structure or rule of law. The problems with men like Khan, Amin, Karmal, and Najibullah always had no legitimacy in the eyes of a majority of the people. IMO, that's because all of their efforts at progress came from the top down, not the bottom up. They always jailed or killed their opponents, there was no real effort to actually negotiate with those rural areas, or pull people away from the power bases that gave say, rural leaders and clerics support.
You might see those pics online of "Oh, here's what Afghanistan looked like before the Taliban" all over the internet, and it gives this appearance that the whole country was this modern oasis of rights and western freedoms. In Kabul, yes. In major cities, mostly yes. But I can show you different photos taken the same year as the others, of women in full burkas walking around in Kabul and major cities. Even in the late 70's, when the most radical communists were in power, some women still wore the burka. If there's no bottom-up approach as to telling these people why basic rights and freedoms are important and beneficial to all, modernization will never happen. It also has to happen slowly. You have to husband and garnish people to your way of thinking, it takes months if not years, or decades to do. These modernization/westernization efforts actually go all the way back to the 1940's.
If you want an interesting story to read, I'd recommend reading "No Good Men Among the Living", by Anand Gopal. There's a story in there of a woman who grew up in Kabul under the communists, she went to college getting a degree in economics, was trained as a midwife and in some basic nursing skills and lived a very good life. But once the war started in '79, her and her husband fled to Urozgan Province, which is in the center of the country, but it has strong linkages via familial networks to the south, Kandahar. Which has always been a very tribal place. Her story goes from her living a good life, to becoming a burka-covered housewife in this rural village. She wasn't even allowed to speak to men through the door of the home she lived in. Surely enough as the years went on, she became a prisoner of the regressive Islamic culture there. There was a case in the book of a neighbor woman who was murdered by her mother-in-law because she "dishonored the family" because she talked back when her husband took a second wife. In these rural areas, women don't leave the home - ever. In an emergency, she has to have a male blood relative with her to leave, and she can only leave with either her father or husband. And you don't *ever* ask a male relative how his wife or daughters are.
It all comes down to Islam's obsession with control over women, and the "honor" culture that's been sewn into Afghanistan's history because of it. Keep in mind, Afghanistan was once a country with a large number of Sikhs, Hindus, Zoroastrians, even a good-sized Christian and Jewish population before Islam came in and destroyed all that pluralism. If Islam hadn't come into Afghanistan, it would be no more fucked up a country than say, modern day Ukraine. It's ironic, the men who practice this culture the most, the Pashtuns, are said to be fierce warriors and defenders of their families. Yet now they're all strict, conservative Muslims. They've adopted a culture and religion that isn't theirs and it's utterly destroyed and retarded what could have been an amazingly modern and pluralistic country.
Robert C understanding Afghanistan through western eyes is almost impossible. What you define as "Islamic Culture" is more of an Afghan thing not an Islamic. You doesn't seem to understand that Afghanistan is first Afghanistan than a Muslim country. Britian is first Britain than Christian, if they still are religious.
Secondly, the burqa is important to some rural people because it is a reflection of Afghanistans 1000ds of years history, not bec of Islam. Since ancient times foreign invention in Afghanistan meant rape and destruction, so to make your family and wife safe, you had them to "lock up". Especially since Afghanistan is country frequently invaded much more than other. To me und you it sounds ancient and uncivilized, but to your avarege rural farmer, who was born and has seen two invasions already, his father has seen one and his grandfather has seen one, it is their daily life.
Plus ther is this recently brought wahabism from Saudi-Arabs to Afghanistan bringing this kind of thinking even to further extremes.
I don't say it has absolutly nothing to do with Islam but saying it's just cause of Islam is a weak way to build an argument upon. The world isnt just black and white.
@Doni Habib Nurmagamdov Khrosoni How about you fk off and take care of your tajerkistan and let us Afghans worry about Afghanistan. Besides, whatever you said is total BS. President & Prime Minister Daud Khan spoke in Dari(Afghan Persian) in US congress when he went there for a visit during his term. If he hated Dari then why the fk would he speak it and whatever interview you see of him, he always speaks Dari and same goes today.
We(Pashtuns) are not racist or fascist, it's just that Pashtuns are more conservative and they don't care for language and culture and they will adopt anyones if they feel like it fits them , and that's why Herat is a Dari speaking Province but majority are Pashtuns same goes for other provinces. We don't care for language and if non ethic Pashtuns would be speaking Pashto now because we always have been in power.
US supported warlords from 2001 till 2016 but nothing was achieved and they had to change their views and now are supporting a moderate and progressive Pashtun whose wife is Lebanese Christian(whom you people call Jewish and infidel) and speaks Dari not Pashto. See if Ashraf Ghani(The current president) hates Dari so much then why did he let his wife learn the language and speak it wherever she goes?
So stop being a cu*t and stop spreading Propaganda.
they attend university now... I wonder if stupidity can ever be dealt with before speaking.
I love how you guys didn't forget Gorbachevs birthmark. That may be one of the top 10 most historical birthmarks lol.
top 1*
Oh my beloved country Afghanistan 😔 it pains me to see this 40 plus years of gruesome violence that you are going through.
Nice abs tho
Lol afghanistan has been like this since alexander the great rolled over the country.
@@neonknight-1522 No, not really in the 50-60s it was actually doing well and was progressive. It had a lot of potential to be a great country. Due to government corruption and foreign power's interest in Afghanistan, it has left it in a constant cycle of fighting for 40+ years. That's why Afghanistan is currently in the stone age.
@@joshouajones4043
No. Incredibly wrong.
Afghanistan at its height was a trade hub for the silk road. The Mongols irreversibly fuckes it back to an agrarian tribal society that it never recovered from. From then on only a few cities where they had suezrain over tribes existed. They haven't fielded an army since they days of durrani (not counting the current ANA)
@@ProtomanButCallMeBlues th-cam.com/video/kQURz9aPAhI/w-d-xo.html
?????? Wtf? Lmao. Coming in here like you got all the facts. Jesus Christ there's nothing worse than someone who is ignorant trying to act like a know it all by making up shit.
It’s crazy how the B02 campaign where you fight with the Mujahideen isn’t just random shooting. U use US rockets to shoot down Soviet helicopters to stop their advance just like what actually happened strategically. Amazing job to the game developers for adding such historical accuracy to the mission when a mission of just shooting random people would have easily sufficed
And it's even more well done when the Mujahideen turn their backs and betray you.
Cod games got me into history. BO1 and BO2 had you fighting in vietnam, afghanistan, panama, kazakhstan, angola, and all sorts of events were based on history. Good stuff
Well this was always a selling point of old cod. It's historical accuracy is one of the key points that made cod "not just another shooter"
It's accurate, the US funded their own downfall
@@mrkilo-g8794 more people die in traffic every day than on 9/11/2001
So ISIS is kinda like a creation turns on it's creator kinda situation?
Ysbrand vd Velde yea
Ysbrand vd Velde abomination*
Ysbrand vd Velde well they didn't turn back against US
no lol they did not turn back they were still used by the US as pretext to declare war against Afghanistan just to invade the country knowing that 9/11 was an inside job
"please tell me how the fuck can 2 planes put down 3 buildings ?!"
Ameen Shindoli then why is usa fighting isis????
Fun fact: Bin Laden left Afghanistan in late 2001 (Battle of Tora Bora) for Pakistan, making the conflict that ensued pretty pointless. But Pakistan is the USA's ally.........
Riiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiight.
Another disappointing fact: Bin Laden was actually recruited by the CIA in 1983-84, in order to funnel the weapons & dollars to keep the red army busy.
Shaz Khan and guess who paid him to turn on us... China, fuck china
@@Holdmybeef Wait,...what?? Bin laden didnt like the fact that US was building military bases in Saudi Arabia. Thats why he had beef with the US. It was all due to US foreign policy toward the Arabs and the middle east
Abdul Danishwar nope chinas fault
@@Holdmybeef
Lol Blame on others as usual huh?
Well……
We’r back at square one right now
And the Northern Alliance is back up the mountains...
@@Coolsomeone234 With the son of Massoud in charge. It's like a bad hollywood reboot of a movie classic.
It's a really interesting subject if you dive deeper into it, this video is just an incredible oversimplification of it, not taking away that it was a great video. A war that doesn't get much attention and deserves more.
Всмысле не удаляется внимание? В школе ее проходят в 9 классе до мельчайших подробностей, по типу 9 роты и битвы за высоту 3234
FUCK YEAH THE AUSSIE MAN IS GONNA TALK ABOUT HISTORY
it kinda makes sense though, Australia doesn't really have anything interesting in its history besides being a penal colony of Britain and losing a war to birds. so of course they would learn a lot of other nation's history because you gotta fill those history textbooks with something.
Ah, if only. They cram those textbooks full of the same stuff just again and again and again. History classes are fairly shit here.
You'reThatMantis History in Australian schools is lacking if you seek any sort of marginally relevant topics but overflowing if you seek to be flogged with the battle of Gallipoli
just start emu war 2 and kill every emu you see maybe take out a few kangaroos holding dogs hostage
Americans had Vietnam, Russia had Afghanistan and Australia had Emus.
“Graveyard of empires.”
Unless you’re the Mongols.
Cue the mongol-tage
*trumphet sounds and horse riding intensifies*
Bloody idiot!!!!!!.... back in Mongol era, there wasn't even a country called Afghanistan.
Look at all these people missing the "unless you're the mongols" joke from crash course world history
I feel sorry for them mate :D
taitaisanchez It’s a dumb name considering almost every empire in the area conquered it
Baron of Bahlingen
Bloody idiot!!!!!!.... back in those great Empires era(including the Mongol ones), there wasn't even a country called Afghanistan.
I love the attention to detail - Lee Enfields and Type 56 assault rifles for the Mujahideen, AK-74s for the Soviets and Afghan government troops. Well played sir.
Afghanistan is the graveyard of empires, Pakistan offers the funeral service.😂
India pays for the funeral.
*insert funeral dance meme*
Captain Stag 😂😂
lol ;v;
Ah yes cause Indians follow the delusional Muhammed.
It is a 🐫💩 country, so who cares.
Gun nut here, I appreciate your efforts in giving proper model of weapons to each side. You thought I wouldn't notice the AKM and the 74.
Damn, the chain of events this war has caused which continued all the way until today is crazy
Welcome to the post Fall-of-Kabul era.
We can savely say that the post 9/11 era is no more.
And what a ride it has been. Like a bad fever dream, only that the doctor has prescribed magic mushrooms against the fever.
A horrible heatwave engulfs Britain, and I lay here at 3.28am, with a crotch like the Florida Everglades, and this upload pleases me.
Ayy, even when it's sunny Britain is wet.
Bitch please, lower the damn rollers on windows and it isn't that hot at all.
Max Dunn My country is hell in summer :'(
What's the temperature there?
+David Cruz Today was ~32 degrees, or 90 Fahrenheit.
When everyone is laughing about the vietnam war but nobody is talking about the afganistan war
*stealthy soviet noises
becoz US also lose the war there
but you cant hear the stealthy soviet noises. Too....stealthy.
When people say only about soviet army in Afganistan fighting terrorists supported by US and don't speak why did US support terrorists
*stealthy american noises
@@Garviel_Loken. they were supporting the Mujahideen. Wait no, to sum it up for you I give you this
US perspective:
-Soviet invade Country= More Soviet influence
-Random people who want to fight Soviet= No Soviet influence
US: I don't give shit who those guys are as long as they fight the Reds they're the good guys
yeah, they don't care who they support as long they're not in Soviet influence they got all the support they wanted
@@Garviel_Loken.they weren't terrorists at the time you stupid dumbass. They were rebels.
One of my favorite history channels on TH-cam. The puns are improving too so keep up the good work! :D
Moral of the story: don't cold war and drive.
hahah
Well this has become suddenly relevant again .
Me when I first heard about this: fucking commies! Go to hell!
Me now: Ya know maybe we shoulda let the commies do their thing
This man really said “might of heard of him” LMAOOOO
Since Afghan war ended in 1989, It was a shutdown for USSR in 1991. Could you make the story about The Fall of Soviet Union?
MrSynet easy all you need to really know is people turned to alcohol to ignore the problems of severe poverty lack of food poor leadership oh and a near dead economy
@@jugofmilk41 The Soviet Union was mainly destroyed due to Chernobyl. The Soviets had to withdraw most troops from Afghanistan to focus on the nuclear accident.
@@genghiskhan7691 afgan and Chernobyl is result.
1922 год: Ленин создал СССР.
1939: Пакт Молотова и Советско-Финская война.
1941: Гитлер нарушил пакт Молотова.
1945:год: Сталин разгромил третий рейх.
1979: Афганистан.
1991: Распад СССР.
Самое интересное, что я вспомнил, после смерти Сталина СССР скатился от истинной социалистической державы в капиталистическом подобие социализма.(И да, за "Сталинские" репрессии был ответственен Хрущев)
Could you do a video about the French expedition to Mexico?
Great content as always btw.
Can’t wait for the American version of the video now.
Waiting for the us to collapse into 50 countries
@Jon Doe im not mad that the us is a superpower in fact i am proud of it but i only said this for meme reasons
@Jon Doe China would say otherwise
Just have the second half and switch Russia and US and there you go (6:47)
@Jon Doe lol if you think usa will sttay forever you are delusional eventually it will fail like all countries will a new country or coutnries will replace its place someday
Afganistan is the true GOAT. Won against the USSR, USA while losing almost every battle. ok ok jokes aside Gurilla warfare carried out by a motivated group(usually religion) is a hell of a weapon
Thank you for making important videos like these that affect us to this day, instead of the same war that is so redone by many channels.
In Soviet Russia, terrorists don't attack you, you attack terrorists.
funny to read that knowing Russia got fucked in Afghanistan and later in Chechen
You mean you attack an innocent country and create terrorists
wew lad no he mean "attacking terrorist"
Russia wasnt got fucked in Afghanistan, look the casualitis of sides, russia leaved afghanistan(like usa in vietnam but more seccessfully). And Russia won Chechen war.
well yeah, they did
What a heartwarming story. Isn't it just beautiful when disputes are worked out peacefully?
Well the USA “liberated” Afghanistan
Just to be under an even more shittier and ruthless regime.
Oil
I was in northeastern Afghanistan and the Navy had geological survey maps showing insane amounts of lithium. Countries like China and India are readying to pounce in the wake of global lithium demand.
User name checks out
@@forkrust9296 Uhh...wut?
"Soviet families take awhile to get fed because they love Stalin"
- A careless little joke that got my grandfather three years in the gulag.
Oddish They should've castrated him.
Chill I'm just messing.
Pretty sure that word play doesn't translate to Russian so I will call bullshit,
What word?
in most of cases it wasn't necessary to even say the word to be gulaged or executed in Soviet 1930-50s
whats 500 metres long and only eats potatos?
soviet people lining up for meat
first rule to keep your empire:
1 - never invade afghanistan
Why ?
I mean, almost every country rap€d it and then left it.
2 - don't invade Russia in winter
@@tomaszzalewski4541 Russia ❤
@@seonderadam3898 Thats the thing, u cant defeat an enemy that sees paradise at the end of the barrel, wt else are they going to lose? they just keep on fighting while knowing their loses, Im quoting the last sentence when the british attacked afghanistan
This video needs a part 2 in 2021!
This video be hitting different now.
do something about Algerian war. from the French conquest to the Algerian independence.
welp im afghan. some time when i hear about the war(that happening right now)i get a bit sad bc it´s my homelandand my family is there
I love how the soviet flags were given what are clearly very well drawn ak74m rifles while the mujahideen was given well drawn akm rifles very nice accuracy there
No matter how the video turns out... That Pun Dad Joke at the beginning earned my thumbs up!
I'm very saddened of what really happened in afghanistan. If the king hasn't been abdicated, it would be very rich by now!
From what? They really dont have anything other then minerals and leopard geckos.
@@felixking2546 they have WEEDS
@@felixking2546 at least one trillion worth of minerals mind you. www.nytimes.com/2010/06/14/world/asia/14minerals.html
Afghanistan in addition to its strategic geographical position, holds many natural resources (of which oil and gas) which could have been clearly sufficient for its population to live very comfortably. Be wary of a seemingly desert landscape.
@@felixking2546 The country was rapidly westernising back in the 60's or so.Sad that it fell to regional powers and islamic extremists.
@@forkrust9296 Good thing it did, Western degeneracy will not be tolerated here.
guys im stuck on a question:
why might some people argue that the soviet invasion of afghanistan served american purpose?
can u guys help me out
america was against spread of communism
gave them an excuse to eventually invade afghanistan which is rich in rare earth elements, a market currently dominated by china. although it served their interests in the long run i don't think anybody was thinking about it at the time
Now this is a master piece. I am surprised and pleased to see that even the guns in this video are correct - Type 56 for Mujahedeen and AK-74 for Soviets.
"And no foreign power would intervene"
Legit every single super power:
OK we will *totally not intervene* with Afghan affairs and defiantly not deploy our troops into Afghanistan, continuing a civil war.
Also them: *He he he, like THATS ever gonna happen....*
I really hope Feature History does a video on Alexander the Great's conquests and/or the Wars of his Successors
Already too many video about Alexander the Great on youtube so i hope not.
ERROR at 8:30mins:
General Ahmad Massoud was murdered by two assassins posing as cameraman and interviewer - they were NOT sent by the Taliban. They were sent by Afghan Warlord Abdul Rasul Sayyaf who both suggested the interview and vouched for their fake credentials.
Philippine terror group Abu Sayyaf is named after him
Abdul Rasul Sayyaf trained the 1993 WTC bomber, Ramsi Yousef.
Sayyaf trained and mentored Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, the 9/11 mastermind
Sayyaf mentored Osama Bin Laden and was the first to offer him & al Qaeda sanctuary in Afghanistan
Sayyaf sent the assassins to murder Massoud on 9th Sept 2001
Sayyaf is a Saudi sponsored Wahhabi Warlord
Sayyaf ran for President of Afghanistan in 2014
Today Sayyaf is in Saudi Arabia discussing international terrorism
And the Saudis tolerate that man, and Trump loves the Saudis
@@GoogleGebruiker I've yet to see Trump bow to the Saudis. My guess is that if he had, CNN would cover nothing for the following 8 months.
@@GoogleGebruiker the suds have been us alley for many presidents
lol sure
they dont call afghanistan the graveyard of empires for nothing.
thats the kind of youtuber this site needs, freely saying what any youtuber actually wants to say to his scum subscribers and spiting on them after.
Subscribed
4:40 often see this mistake. By that time it wasn't called the Red Army but the Soviet Army
You may have to upgrade this video soon
Would definitely recommend reading William Polks violent politics. Covers Vietnam and Afghanistan not to mention American war of independence. Incredibly interesting and useful.
This was great. Tied together so many things!
Can you please do Apartheid, and a little bit of the history of South Africa. I would be more than happy to help.
You should talk about Napoleon the third. He is important, but even in France we rarely talk about him.
After all he did host the coronation of Germany's first Kaiser
What comes around, goes around.
that exit strategy sounds... familiar
Long live Afghanistan
Much love from iraq
🇦🇫🖤🇮🇶
Thank you 😊 🇮🇶🇦🇫
How is iraq now ???
@@sahilsomsagar9870 a desert with small cities and some wars in some areas.
@@jagerreal a dessert that made you soldiers psychos and shit themselves ever since. “We never lose, we win or die”
Thanks ❤️
I should've just let the Soviets have Afghanistan
tbh
duh
cry about it
@@Muslim-og3vc 😂
Bruh was this account created just to make this comment?
Now why would this be recommended to me now?
6:46 sounds familiar...
Congrats on pronouncing some of those names!
Thus how america created Al qaieda
Just to contain communism so they rather give gun to terrorism just fight ussr
@@goldenbrothers5579
Sure but no exactly.
The terrorism began after 2001, when Israel started her agenda.
The terrorism is hoax not real, or in other word, is pawn.
@@Enes-wj5xq
"THE JOOS STOLE MY SOCKS"
*Thus how the actions of the USSR eventually created Al qaieda
@@CursedDepartmentEastOffice
Who turned al Qaieda from being rebels into terrorists ?
Dont tell me islam made them terrorists, because al Qaieda killed so many muslims than non muslims.
Your government is devil.
Could you make a video about Prague spring/Hungarian revolution/other revolts in the eastern block?
4:41, The Red Army didn't exist during that time, it was renamed right after WW2 as the Soviet Army
that's not the only thing they got wrong. 4:44, I am alive!
The graveyard of empires that has defeated the mighty USA and ussr empires which is sad honestly
@Rob J maybe learn some fuckin history the ussr and USA were called empires and still are because of there sheer size and power
@@almighty5839 Why not learn some fucking history yourself and realize the USSR doesn't exist anymore.
@Rob J like that’s a comeback you literally have some shitty anime pfp lmfaooo I doubt you know anything about fuckin history
Read Lenin's "Imperialism the Highest Stage of Capitalism" if you want to learn about empire.
Small correction: The Taliban didn’t kill Massoud. Two Tunisian nationals did, likely under orders from Osama or some other international player like Pakistan. The Taliban didn’t have that kind of network.
It was confirmed that Al Quaeda did it as a favor for the Taliban.
Can you please do a video on the Philippine-American War? Thanks.
0:08 that got a chuckle out of me.
Conclusion:
Zahir Shah should have never been overthrown.
Hafizullah Amin should never have been replaced.
@@hafizullahamin7671 Hafizullah Amin was a scumbag and has literally had family close to me killed
@@Datburningpig sorry, I didn't mean to offend. I was only making a joke, you actually went through stuff and have a right to be angry.
Doesn’t give any reference of the battle of Jalalabad.
What about all battles in all 34 provinces?
Can you explain a little bit?
I like your light-hearted comedic style of presentation, but yet still sending strong message the the common people suffer from consequences of All Wars.
Also the DRA didnt recongnize the Durand Line and took a hardline stance on it. if you look at maps in the DRA they would have dotted lines on the durand line
May I request for a video on the War on Terror , it is somewhat linked to my project. Pls help me out!!!
its the byzr there is no war on terror.....in Afghanistan they are after opium...in middle east they are after oil and maybe try to expand israel borders....after/if they succeeded
It's kinda hard to make a history video on something that's still going on today.
Love your videos (watched all of them). However, what to make a little mention on 4:40 of this video. In 1979 the army of Soviet Union was called Soviet Army (1946-1991), not Red Army (1922-1946).
Well explained history mate, though feel sorry for the miserable state of Afghanistan. May they find peace and tolerance with each other.
RIP
To the 75,000-90,000 Afghan Mujahideen fighters, 5,775 Pakistani troops, 1-3 million Afghan civilians, 14,453-26,000 Soviet troops, and 58,000+ Afghan (DRA) troops who were killed in the Soviet-Afghan War
What does Indians and Pakistanis like: Biryani
What does the US like: Getting involved in every war
What does Afghanis like: Kalashnikovs
6:53
And they say history doesn’t repeat itself
The Soviet-Afghan War is essentially the soviet's Vietnam war
not really. even losses was in 3 times smaller. almost nobody think we were wrong, especially now.
afghanistan was worse for the invaders than vietnam. the soviet union collapsed because of their invasion. even up today, russia has lost much of its credebility because of their defeat in afghanistan. while the usa is still around after their vietnam war. all of communism died against afghanistan. while capitalism is still dominant in the west and some other countries.
The USSR did not fight against Afghanistan. He fought against terrorists on the territory of Afghanistan.
not really , Communist government was highly unpopular in Afghanistan , and it was people who rose against them after land reforms, but majority became against them when they asked USSR to come to Afghanistan.
"almost nobody think we were wrong" Shut the fuck up. The only people supporting you are third world anti American dipshits who were never hit by the conflict personally. Most Afghans hate you as much if not worse then the US since you murdered more of their civilians on purpose, and anyone who does not have their heads up a commies ass calls you out.
A large force has to win. A guerrilla force just doesn’t have to lose.
I am amazed by the time that you have invested in this. The time it has taken to figure out these animations.... holy shit.... Good job. wow!
Its funny how Russia "supported" the N.V.A during the Vietnam War and in turn America "supported" the Mujahadden during the Soviet-Afghan war
well done! nice and unbiased covering of the events!
People here seem to have forgotten "The enemy of my enemy is my friend"
The USA afghan relation was nothing new or unusual. That's how war develops sometimes.