Documentry : CNN cold war (Soviet Afgan War) The Soldiers Of God

[Desi Guy]

[video=google;8889997458243686565]http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=8889997458243686565[/video]

 

[jayron]

This is actually a 24 part documentary . its a must watch for all history buffs.

Cold War 01/24 full length documentary - Comrades 1917-1945 - YouTube

 

[Desi Guy]

This is actually a 24 part documentary . its a must watch for all history buffs.

Cold War 01/24 full length documentary - Comrades 1917-1945 - YouTube

yes I know.Its a full series on Cold War.Really good one actually discloses all the mistakes made by the Americans and Soviets.

Cold War (TV series) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

 

[Sasquatch]

I've even heard we provided weapons against the USSR in this war.

 

[brahmastra]

I've even heard we provided weapons against the USSR in this war.

yeah, I heard you even fired some.

 

[Sasquatch]

yeah, I heard you even fired some.

We did on Soviet forces

 

[Veritas]

I've even heard we provided weapons against the USSR in this war.

You sure do have the keys to the rumor mill.

 

[RazPaK]

You sure do have the keys to the rumor mill.

Pakistan hosted talks between China and US for sharing similar interests during the Cold War. What Hu Songshan said is true.

 

[Sasquatch]

You sure do have the keys to the rumor mill.

Sino-Soviet Split we were competing with the USSR funding our own groups.

 

[DelhiDareDevil]

Sino-Soviet Split we were competing with the USSR funding our own groups.

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[Sasquatch]

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North Vietnam, Albania, Communist African Countries, we also funded weapons with the CIA to Afghanistan. basically completing for influence in the Communist Block and the bad relations with the USSR increase that. Look up operation cyclone.

 

[Zabaniyah]

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Refer to:
The Sino-Soviet Split

Chinese support for the Afghan Mujaheddin:

The CIA became the grand coordinator: purchasing or arranging the manufacture of Soviet-style weapons from Egypt, China, Poland, Israel and elsewhere, or supplying their own; arranging for military training by Americans, Egyptians, Chinese and Iranians; hitting up Middle-Eastern countries for donations, notably Saudi Arabia which gave many hundreds of millions of dollars in aid each year, totaling probably more than a billion; pressuring and bribing Pakistan-with whom recent American relations had been very poor-to rent out its country as a military staging area and sanctuary; putting the Pakistani Director of Military Operations, Brigadier Mian Mohammad Afzal, onto the CIA payroll to ensure Pakistani cooperation.

US tactical support for the Afghan Mujaheddin:

Beginning in 1985, the CIA supplied mujahideen rebels with extensive satellite reconnaissance data of Soviet targets on the Afghan battlefield, plans for military operations based on the satellite intelligence, intercepts of Soviet communications, secret communications networks for the rebels, delayed timing devices for tons of C-4 plastic explosives for urban sabotage, and sophisticated guerrilla attacks, long-range sniper rifles, a targeting device for mortars that was linked to a U.S. Navy satellite, wire-guided anti-tank missiles, and other equipment.

Afghanistan, the CIA, bin Laden, and the Taliban

India supported the USSR:
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[harpoon]

yeah, I heard you even fired some.

Actually he is telling the truth. Chinese supplied many weapons including rockets that helped Mujaheddin target Kabul.

 

[Chogy]

The average America looked at the support of the Muj. in the Afghan-Soviet conflict as (right or wrong) payback for Vietnam. The USSR provided North Vietnam with vast quantities of materiel, expert advice, even engineers to help construct SAM sites and the like.

 

[fd24]

The average America looked at the support of the Muj. in the Afghan-Soviet conflict as (right or wrong) payback for Vietnam. The USSR provided North Vietnam with vast quantities of materiel, expert advice, even engineers to help construct SAM sites and the like.

I agree - what i would question is the aftermath of the support resulted in creating a monster unable to control itself resulting baths of extremism sadly deposited all over the world.Short term it was payback - long term was it worth it as this animal head keeps popping up to take innocent lives?