The Great Big book of Horrible Things: the Definitive Chronicle of History's 100 Worst Atrocities
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mujahideen Time frame: 1979–92 Location: Afghanistan Major state participants: Afghanistan, Soviet Union Major non-state participants: lots of warlords Who usually gets the most blame: Leonid Brezhnev Another damn: superpower ground war in Asia The unanswerable question everyone asks: Did this cause the fall of the Soviet Union? Coups and Countercoups Early in the Cold War, Afghanistan had been a lukewarm Soviet client state. It wasn’t Communist, but the Soviets were eager to keep their next-...door neighbor stable, so they happily supplied the monarchy in Kabul with all of the guns and money it needed to maintain order. In July 1973, while the king of Afghanistan was vacationing in France, a coup by his prime minister and cousin, General Mohammad Daoud Khan, made a return trip unnecessary. Afghanistan shifted from a lazy monarchy to a lazy dictatorship with hardly a blink at the United Nations; however, this interruption of the status quo caused both sides of the Cold War to reconsider.
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