• Harrison [He/Him]
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    101 year ago

    Sort of, the local communists, probably without soviet knowledge or support, overthrew the local military dictator. They started unpopular reforms like gender equality and social ownership, people got very unhappy about that, the situation devolved into a civil war and the Soviets decided to intervene to support the Afghan communists.

    Not quite a straight invasion like Ukraine and probably more justified than the US intervention.

    • @Historical_General
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      21 year ago

      The soviets didn’t even like them iirc. Very sad situation all round.