How The Afghans Defeated The Soviet Union | Full Hikma History Documentary
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- Опубликовано: 16 май 2024
- The Graveyard of Empires. The rugged and resilient nature of the Afghans was on full display when the Soviet Union invaded the country in 1979. The subsequent resistance shown by the Afghan Mujahideen captivated the imagination of the world. Stretching the Soviet military machine to its limits, the consequences of the war would prove instrumental in shaping geopolitics for the next few decades. In this feature-length documentary, I’ll trace the causes of the war; going as far back as the modernising initiatives of the 1950s. In the process, we’ll be able to understand important questions, such as - how did this conservative and staunchly Islamic society come to be governed by an atheistic-inclined ideology like communism in 1978? And how did an irregular group of guerrilla warriors like the Mujahideen contend with a military superpower like the Soviet Union?
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Sources:
Jason Burke - Al-Qaeda The True Story of Radical Islam
Mohammed Hassan Kakar - The Soviet Invasion and the Afghan Response, 1979-1982
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Rodric Braithwaite - Afgantsy: The Russians in Afghanistan, 1979-89
0:00 Intro
1:59 Post-WWII Political Modernisation
9:38 Communist Takeover
16:24 Invasion & Early Years
24:00 Foreign Assistance to the Mujahideen
30:54 Mujahideen Leadership
34:42 Conclusion & Aftermath
Do you think the Afghans would've won without foreign support?
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Maybe not, but I heard that Ahmad Shah Massoud & the Northern Alliance did not get too such support due to political and ethnic divisions from the Southern tribes & Pakistan from where most of the weapons were supplied; yet the Russians could never beat Massoud and the forces that he led - these forces also had major victories over the Russians. Local Emeralds funded a lot of the Northern Alliance.
Ofcourse the USSR would've won without foreign support to the Afghans. Note that "foreign support" isn't synonymous to "the USA". Saudi Arabia, Iran and China were supporting the Afghans too.
@@exentr Important point - Saudi/Chinese/Iranian/Pakistani support was key
No. Without the advanced weaponry provided by the West, the Mujahideen would have been crushed by the Soviets.
This was an awesome documentary - gonna watch it again.
Thank you my man!
You haven't understand the first time?
@@LMB222 sometimes films demand being viewed more than once... and not because they were misunderstood the first time.
"When you try to change someones ways by force your Going to Face Resistance "
This is my favourite channel. I especially like it when you explain everything so nicely. I wish you a lot of success with the channel and happy life.
Thank you!
Grave yard of empires...gives me goosebumps 🌚
Yeah the thought of Empires in graves is a bit premature, but we can hope.
Thanks. This history ends in the mid 90's. What follows 8 years later is 20 years of US bombardment, followed by the NATO food sanctions and Biden's theft of all $9 billion in the Afghan govt. account leaving Afghanistan to starve. More Afghans may die in this year than in the 20 years of US bombing and Taliban fighting.
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Now Ukraine..they will meet the same fate..it will disintegrate Russia too in 8 years
@@ruokuovituotheunuo3983 nope
Mean British tamed it in the end and the Mongols managed it
Plz say swanbumps
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Thanks for this…..I learned a lot 👍🏻
excellent work this is really informative
Did my tour in AF and I fell in love with this country. I felt as if I had come home and had some weird connection to this miraculous place. Been to the Salang tunnel, unless you have been there and seen the topography of the land, you will understand why the Russians left KM and the Panjir valley alone when the opportunity came for a short term peace.
This war would have been over if that dog masood wasn't making deals with the enemy. It's funny how they praised him as the lion of Afghanistan more like the lair of Afghanistan. There were lots of lions fighting in Afghanistan and there will always be lions fighting there as long as their is islam there they will always resist occupation. But our biggest problem is enemies in and around Afghanistan who start civil wars with pashtoons and Kabullies and hazaras and panshires fighting for power. Stop killing each other we are all brothers and sisters stop killing each other.
Proud to be Afghan
@@kahilakbari4940 war would have been over? Yeah ofcourse then you would be singing the Pakistani qaumi Taranah under gulbudin with Kabul as the capital of its new province.
@@raheelbelal5848 you havent got a clue
I was there for OEF 07-08. Stunningly beautiful country
I was 6 when thee Soviet came to my country, I’m 37 now and I remember everything like it happened yesterday. May Allah grant our brave people paradise and may Allah continue bless us with courage and faith in sha Allah 🙏🏽
You remember when girls were allowed to go to school and soviet and afghan engineers were building infrastructure so people could live better? Oh no the horror
Your still there ? How's the taliban
If you were 6 in 1979 wouldn’t that mean you were born in 1973; which would mean you’re 49, no?
Maybe Allah does not care for you people, look at how your country always attracts war, death and destruction to your people, even the atheist communists governed your country better than the taliban do, look at afghanistan now?, mothers selling their children for food and much of the population doing drugs to escape from the misery of being an afghan in a islamic country, afghanistan is a hell on earth and you think Allah will grant you a paradise for your failings on this earth? you are a bad joke🤣
@@HikmaHistory 🤣taliban math🤷🏽♂️
This is a very awesome documentary that explained one of my favorite conflicts in a highly detailed way. Thank you!
Thanks Dan!
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This is so exceptionally well narrated & made. I’ve just faved this content to your channel & subbed.
Shout out to Afghanistan, they put up one hell of a fight against every aggressor
Get lucky because of mountain caves. Thats it
@@jasoncutshaw8401 probably unsuited parent
It's not that their competent fighters, it's that every regime that has occupied Afghanistan treats the population like shit and if history has shown us anything: You can't fight the population if you want to permanently hold ground
@@craniumfirst lmao don't insult sun zu by saying the afghans use his level of tactics lmao. The afghans are a fucking joke strategy wise they ride around on horses and surround enemies or hide lmfao that's basic warfare. These afghans were pushing the bolt on their m4s to make it shoot like a bolt action and calling it a sniper button. Also when the soviets starting using 6n1 ammo in their aks afghans who died because their wounds got infected or couldn't treat it in a cave would make the afghans believe the soviets were using poison bullets when they were not lmao
@@brianticas7671 USA got lucky because of their 801 billion budget, tanks, drones, jets, helicopters, MRAPS..and still weren't lucky enough to win.
"Jihad and the rifle alone: no negotiations, no conferences and no dialogues"
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@@You.are.correct.however you guys want to join in on the burning of the reds?
I had a jacket with that phrase on the back..during the time the U.S was in Afghanistan i wore it to Eid one day . .and the local news company was at the celebration and interviewed me . May Allah accept Shiekh Azzams efforts. Ameen
Lol. If the USA wanted to actually destroy Afghanistan we could simply do it from the Persian Gulf with one carrier. Our elected leaders use “military action” to enrich their donors.
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thanks for adding depth to our understanding of this recent war
It's not terrorism it's called resistance can't walk in to someone's homeland and tell them there way of living is wrong and must change
So your saying that what the US does in other countries is wrong as well then aka western supporters are interfering trouble causing punks
There way of living is wrong if they think they can create a global hub for terrorists to perform 9/11 and other international terror attacks, the USA was right to throw Bin Laden and the Taliban, the US mistake was to support the Afghan people, who we all now know are the makers of their own misfortunes
We call it "heli-heh" where in from.
If its your neighbor across the st from you, i believe you can.
@@brianticas7671 so you're the nosy neighbor that everybody talks about.
The Soviets must have laughed their heads off when USA got involved in Afghanistan.🤣🤣🤣
Soviet union died in 1991 ,10 yrs before us involvement
@@davidrogers9797 I think the OP means Russians
@@charlesscott4722 I know I just corrected him
*Russian Holy Federation* death to (((bolshevism))).
Not really. It's competition. USA said Russia can't do but we can do it. They weren't laughing but rather seeing if USA is better. Probably Cross 🤞 their fingers saying I hope USA doesn't accomplish either what we could not do.
This was one of the most important conflicts of the 20th century, mujahedeen were the first ones to break the myth of Soviet invencibality,,and showed the world that it can be done.
Not true, the Nazis came very close to destroying the Soviets in their own lands, the Afghans only proved that they could kill 15,000 soviets whilst losing over two million of their own people in a fight that was mostly confined to the Afghan mountains, the biggest losers then and now are obviously the Afghans, who will always be poverty stricken mostly due to their very own religious beliefs
Now Ukraine is showing the world Russia's army seems to be inferior to western weapons
I mean if anyone invades Afghanistan the myth of their invincibility will be shattered
Indeed. That is completely downplayed but then it also comes down to a combination of a courageous people and the right backers.
Well without the west support they cant be done ...
Beautiful documentary!
Excellent documentary. I learned so much
Glad you enjoyed it!
I am a VET and I can tell you NOBODY can defeat an enemy who has "SANCTUARY COUNTRIES" to hide in... Examples? We can start with an earlier war (VIETNAM WAR) we ALL should have paid attention to BEFORE committing to any war like this. The enemy was able to hide in Cambodia and Laos and re-enter Vietnam at will to initiate attacks... Fast-Forward to Afghanistan, the Generals all knew the Russians faced the SAME thing from the Afghan Mujahideen being able to hide in Pakistan, Waziristan, Baluchistan, Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan, Tajikistan...
Amen.
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Both US and Soviet were defeated by such powerless countries of Afghanistan and vietnam.moral of the story don't be a bully to a weak one
Umm, how were the Soviets defeated? They installed a pro-Soviet government and left...
The government actually outlived the Soviet Union...
@@havanasyndrome3024Simple. The Soviets failed in Afghanistan because they couldn't manage to decimate the Mujahideen, who continued to be a sizable force that eventually outlived both their occupation and defeat the Soviet-dependant goverment they installed.
The argument about the pro-Soviet regime is pretty odd, since the same can be said about the Vietnamese goverment installed by the US that managed to survive for two years after US withdrawal. Guess the US didn't fail at Vietnam either, right?
@@juliankraus1011 dafuq are you babbling about? The Soviets left after installing pro-Soviet government...
@@havanasyndrome3024 I´m talking facts, I know that´s a foreign concept for you.
@@havanasyndrome3024 "The Soviets left after installing pro-Soviet government."
And? So did the US at Vietnam. Both failed their strategic objectives, both lost ther respective wars. Simple to understand, isn´t it?
Update 2.0 : When the Afghans defeated the US and no one really question the hypocrisy and corruption on both sides. 🤔
Haha! Afghans defeated USA!? Where?? When!? Don't you Know in early 2000's these Afghans(Northern Resistance) sided with USA to kick Talibans asses?? And they won! USA occupied Afghans for 20yrs! Soviet union defeats against Afghans is different story from USA. Russia never defeat, never toppled and never Occupied Afghanistan in there 3years of war campaign.
@@jamesguy3428 You only kicked Taliban with the help of Northern Alliance of the late Ahmed Shah Masoud in 2001,but in 2021 you didn't trust those Tajiks rather entertain Ashraf Ghani!Americans lost so many soldiers.
@@sivaratnamasabaratnam8946 we lost more in 9/11 attack than 20 years of occupying afghan. yet we killed almost 100k taliban. we only left because we realize u guys like living in tribes being uncivilized
@@sivaratnamasabaratnam8946and so much $$$$ only to leave so much gear behind and re equipped them with new hardware. 😂
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„Americans lost so many Soldiers“
2400 My Guy. How many did the Taliban lose? 53.000 and 2000 Al Qaida Members were killed.
Great segment! But you’ve gotta share the music in the background, that particular one . Tia
Thanks! There's bunch, which one do you mean?
Very cool video
Very true the notion that the Afghan jihad was so big and consequential that it is impossible to be attributed to a handful individuals called leaders.
L to Soviet Union and USA they wasted billions of their military money on Afghanistan L L L Losers
Muito obrigado pelo documentário! its super interesting especially to see those pictures of Afghan society in the 50s-60s, how modernist it was. Seldomly in the West we are presented pictures of afghan society in that way, always more of a colonial look. How a difficult war in a foreign country played part in bringing down the Soviet Union now rings familiar with the russian war in Ukraine. Peace to all Afghan people, may they now find liberation without foreign interventions.
It's nice to have the events put in a straight line...I lived through those times and much of this was unknown.
excellent documentary, thanks ali g!
Correction: Massoud signed the truce (which didnt last) with the soviet to break the siege in panjshir, that was killing and starving his locals which he was leading. Massoud had history of putting his people first, just like when Americans asked him and paid him to close salang pass in 1990 so they could launch a large offensive and topple the president, Dr najibullah, but he didnt. Citing that the salang pass was important for his locals.
you can't just glorify people just because he was from your ethnicity. Everyone knows how massoud was made hero by western media despite the fact that he was fighting in just one city all those years.
DCFinest----Afganistan defetet not only America but maximum Nations under Nato.
@@cricketsoccurgossip7125 No your wrong.
Massoud was the only commander to witness 5 major assaults and offensives on his province by the soviets and he still manage to break their grip. Assaults and offensives that involved 1000s of troops and 100s of tanks and aircrafts.
His guerilla's were stationed in the most strategic area of the whole country, the salang pass, which connected the north to the south and kabul and was how he initially armed himself to an extent.
Later on, Massoud was able to form his own military commanders shura/ group in the north, which was called shura e nazar. This group had members from all of the major provinces in the north, like balkh and takhar or badakshan. By 1992, he was in control of majority of the north.
Massoud was by the far the larger and more notorious figure in the soviet jihad, compared to gulbudin rocketyar who spend his the whole decade living in peshawar, away from the battlefield. I am not tajik and nor I support the mujahideens jihad even massouds.
@@sardarkhan6804 Like second WW,Allied forces
Never mess with these guys when it comes to weapons because they've been fighting all there lives.
They take a shot then run and hide.
@@TheBandit7613 hide from the unman uv
Without the support of the west and I guess they could not go far
@@TheBandit7613 Just like Americans carpet bomb everything before they invade, everyone has their own method of fighting
@@charlesscott4722 Carpet bomb? In WWII.
Carpet bombing is a waste. The US is far away, transporting bombs that don't hit anything useful is so Vietnam. i forgot how much it costs to transport one gallon of diesel from the US to Afghanistan, I do remember thinking it's crazy expensive. Go back and watch footage from Iraq, it was a thing of beauty. Cruise missiles hitting communications, ammo stockpiles, military bases. That's just the first wave. No communication, the enemy gets confused and they panic. In a few days, Iraq was wiped out. There were more prisoners giving up than they could handle.
I don't care if you like the US or not. The US military is decades ahead of everyone else.
Satellites that see thru walls, can pinpoint a cell phone and drop a bomb on it. Facial recognition from space. Real time, in HD in any weather. They know if a match has been lit.
Why do you think Ukraine is whooping Russia? Any move Russia makes is seen and reported on. Even a tank being refueled.
Seriously, Russia needs to go home, fire Putin for screwing up and elect someone who will bring the Russian people into the 21st century,
Russia could be a good world partner that is loved by all.
That's sounds better than dying, doesn't it?
Great Documentary Thanks for the content 👍🇦🇫
Very interesting. The second time i watched this video.
I finally found a more detailed documentary about the Soviet Afghan war so many other ones just gloss over all the details
Appreciate it, put a lot of time in to this badboy!
Appreciate this. The Soviet-Afghan War has always been my favorite war to study because of its long lasting and tragic effects.
Not to mention it being Russia’s Vietnam
It became America's Vietnam 2.0 where it lost again. Lol.
36:59 2 million dead figure is quiet questionable for me, the total population was around 14 mil, but the refugee population was also in the millions. By looking at Afghanistans population growth through out its decades, we can see that without the soviet war their population would've been at 16 million by the later 1980s. yet multiple millions of afghans were in Pakistan and Afghanistan.
No one knows the exact population of afghanistan, even till this day. There is also a very high birth rate in afghanistan aswell which is why despite all the millions of deaths and people fleeing, the population still continues to grow regardless. Maybe one day when there is lasting peace, people will be able to do a proper population survey. It is estimated to be around 40 million today but who knows how accurate that is.
@@3x0ticContent i hear 38 instead. Sounds more accurate since they move in and out of neighbouring iran and pakistan.
@@3x0ticContent, Green East: A survey today would not capture the numbers. NATO food sanctions, Biden's appropriation of the $9 billion Afghan federal account have created a crisis that may kill or displace (as refugees) more Afghans than the last 20 years of US bombing and Taliban resistance. It would be harder to come up with accurate figures now than when the Soviets left because the accumulated destruction since this vid was made would frustrate accurate assessment.
freedom fighters become insurgents dependent on how the narrator wants you to perceive the subject... also bitter lake is a great documentary that kind of goes full circle
Unfortunately they were played by foreign (American) financing which united various factions in the country that had extremely different ideologies, but together all formed the Mujheideen. After the war was won against the Soviets all these groups had no reason to be united anymore and they splintered. One of these groups was the Taliban, and the rest is history.
So you're saying it was a bad thing that they were united for a while? Would you rather they fought each other instead of the Soviets then? Would you rather America didn't support them during that time? What is your point and why blame America?
@@namenameson9065 their destroy Kabul in name of Islam.
@@Peopleunder The whole country would've been enslaved by Communists anyway. It really was a lesser of two evils situation. The Soviets being a global superpower were a bigger threat to the whole world than the Islamists.
Now do one on the NATO invasion of Afghanistan and the freedom struggle of the Afghans against the occupiers.
@UCzyc0HZVLDlKMYIevIp5x8Q will definitely check that out.Thank you
Afghans against the occupiers? Such nonsense, these were allied troops of the Afghan government and not occupiers!
@@GreatPolishWingedHussars The Soviets could have made the same argument, lol, Liberals have such little self awareness.
should he include the part about the famine that started after the occupiers left and the Taliban took power?
@@2782Jack Which occupiers? The western troops were allies of the Afghan government and not occupiers.
4:21 Introduction of socialism/communism.
4:58 1965 Nur Mohammad Taraki, Babrak Karmal and others establish People’s Democratic Party of Afghanistan (PDPA).
5:19 PDPA splits into two main factions. Khalq (more radical) and Parcham (more moderate).
6:23 1973 King Zahir Shah/Mohammad Daud Khan, bloodless coup.
9:00 / 9:22 April 1978 Saur Revolution.
Interesting/informative/entertaining. Excellent still-motion pictures/maps. Enabling viewers to better understand what what the orator is describing. 😉Had I had the final decision. Afghanistan 🇦🇫 wouldn’t have been invaded. Afghanistan’s rough rocky terrain makes for very difficult military operations. As the Soviet armed military forces encountered.
If it was not for all the war Afghanistan would be a beautiful country even with the wars parts are still beautiful
The country is beautiful unfortunately their mentality still stuck in the 1400 years when the Taliban took over to oppress their own people as what Iranian have gone through and wanted to be out and unfortunately the world is in their deaf ear without the support to the Iranian people to call out for their freedom ...
@ⲰⲜϪ ⲮⲀⲖⲘⲞⲤ What contribution to the muslim world contributed to the world except keep brainwashing their sheeps by building Mega Mosques around the world for easily control ...I guess you are one of them unable to unchain yourself isnt it ...They got trillions of dollars because of the west who have discovered oil for them or they are still riding camels to this date...Give me one of the contribution their big brothers Saudi have change some of their third world muslim countries they have contributed
@ⲰⲜϪ ⲮⲀⲖⲘⲞⲤ Really in your dream and What humanity you have when muslim will kill muslim for leaving the arabic belief in the majority muslim countries ...And I guess the discovering oil will be the muslim isnt it ...
CIA may have not been the main reason for the uprising, but it actively encouraged and stoked the uprising.
Afghanistan, my home away from home. I miss it and I miss my friends that are still there. What a truly beautiful country with even more beautiful and amazing people.
Awesome.
good, but cut the long intro
New Title " When the Americans defeated the Soviet Union in Afghanistan and Afghanistan defeated America"!!!!!!!
it was Afghans army was defeated. US never went in a war they withdraw cause Afghans are cowards didn’t want to put up a fight after 10 yrs of training by US military was the biggest failure!
thank.s fore Repeat History Thank .s frome History
Gotta say, the mines weren’t camouflaged as childrens toys. It’s just that the soviet light infantry mine is colourful and I think mostly rubbery in texture, making it distinctly not-mine-like.
I understand the frustration because of atrocity but historic nor hysteric hyperbole helps no one.
Time to do a new documentary on the USA now.
What documentary? US didn’t go war against Taliban it the Afghans army are cowards didn’t want to put up the fight using US military and weapons was the biggest failure.
Poor Afghans were torn by war like Viet Nam. Wish their future will be brighten.
Thier future is heaven better place you can relax in it 👍
So far this great documentary, not to biased either way and gave me slot of information I didn't know. I'm a writer and doing an alternate history novel where the Soviets win the cold war ww3 cause the Nazi trope has been done to death
I love watching the Nigerian representative roasting the shit out of The Soviets.
One Thing ie observed in during withdrawal of the Soviets , that they had their planned exit in an organized way the democratic government setup after their withdrawal lasted Almost 6-7 years which means almost a term this was unlike American withdrawal in which the government fell in 3 months
They had plans to get out when they realized they were losing as they thought 💭 t was a piece of cake like they did in europe and had a rude awakening. Also many of their soldiers were defecting too.
Hope to see a movie on How the Afghans Defeated the US and NATO soon.
US and NATO just left .....and Afghanistan returned into shit with the Taliban ruling. No prosperity No democracy. Afghans will have to live in hunger under Taliban regime.So sad! Afghans did not defeat US
@@albertalberto9988 They did defeat the USA stop lying 🤣🤣 But you can blindly think that if you want
@@albertalberto9988 but the way they evicted their forces, contractors, translators and 80 thousand collaborators, blind drone attacks on the families and houses of their own old co workers just to save their face were like that of defeated forces hurriedlly left war zones leaving behind their costly military hardware and weaponry ?!
@@TheWorldIsAWorld No! US Army left them in the shit! US Army left ignoring so Afghans can live the way they want to . How is Afghanistan today? Hunger! Praying for some help coming from some ''rich countries''. Children without food! Islam and democracy can not live together.
@@albertalberto9988 keep thinking that, it's your opinion so
Afghanistan has never been conquerored.
I was traveling through Afghanistan in 1977. Met the Mujahideen in the mountains, who told us that the CIA were there training them in guerilla tactics, as it was anticipated Russia would invade, which they did November 1979.
America helped Afghanistan, but once Russia left, instead of leaving became an occupational force, after the billions of minerals underground, and from this developed all the break off factions.
As an American millennial growing up with the War in Afghanistan, I always was curious of Afghanistan before 9/11
Power to the people of Afghanistan. Poorest country to defeat the most sophisticated super powers.
Great doco. Sad for Afghanistan tho. They seem to be a target for every imperial power to this very day 😢
That's what you get for being situated in an important geopolitical location I guess
Idk why. Afghanistan has nothing to offer. Poor ass country. Now china has money 💰. Afghanistan has nothing manm
The expansionist mind set of the Imperial powes to this day is creating these problems to an extend. Afghanistan is a result of this
USA big pharma wanted the Poppy fields to get everyone hooked on Percocets and CIA wanted to sell heroine to the cartels
I have a request
can you do a video on a specific individual....im referring to general rasheed dostum whos territory was mazar-e-sharif aka Balkh during the 90s-2000s
I have to be honest, most probably not
Lukee The documentary. Would love If you could deal with civil war and The war crimes commited By The mujahadeen. Alot of our people never Have had good Image of mujahadinian or in pashto toppakian
Please do one of the Nato occupation from 2001 to 2021
Probably not tbh
@@HikmaHistory why
@@HikmaHistory And why is that
@@mrvan3491 no jew money
@@HikmaHistory Why? You´re butthurt your white western ass got owned by the Talibans?
When the Soviets invaded and occupied Afghanistan it was all darkness, the world that the Afghans knew was gone and now these foreign European looking men with pale skin, blue eyes, and guttural voices riding on tanks and holding automatic weapons were now in charge of their lives and they cruel, sadistic, and brutal. It was the dark ages forced upon Afghanistan, descended upon them. Imagine how hard life was like for the 13 million Afghans who lived under Soviet occupation. And the two million slaughtered under it. The world owes Afghanistan an eternal gratitude debt that can never be repaid by defeating the Soviet Union. No other country fought as hard as Afghanistan against Soviet Imperialism. Not Ukraine, not Finland, not Hungary, not Poland, and not even Nazi Germany caused such long term harm to the USSR. Afghans fought the longest, hardest, and suffered the most. For years they fought Soviet tanks and hinds with sticks and stones until the USA, UK, China, and other countries started sending weapons and supplies to the Afghan freedom fighters. The Afghans outnumbered and outgunned by the technologically and militarily superior Soviets won in the end because they had the indomitable will to win because the thought of losing their country was unbearable. It was thanks to Afghanistan and its people for causing the collapse of the Soviet Union ultimately and bringing an end to the Cold War. While I admire a lot of Soviet culture and scientific engineering I cannot say the same about their military and Government who were on par as evil and immoral as the Axis Powers during World War 2.
The Soviets lost 20 million in ww2 against the Nazis
They lost 9 thousand against the afghans
And you think they caused more harm than the Nazis
9 thousand? Try 40 thousand ikik you believe the Russian lies. I mean Russians never lie about economic and military statistics right ever?
The Soviets were the good guys. Fym
@@categories5066 No.
With the help of the Americans and Pakistan. And the brave men of Afghanistan. The lionesses of Afghanistan who sacrificed their men open heartedly to maintain honour
I’m at 7:58 and so far every little detail is correct
On a scale of 1-10 how much do you hate the taliban?
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10, just like I hate any other regime that steal democracy and civil liberty from its people.
@@samwill7259 afgans dont want lgbt, abortion and feminism in their lands
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I've been wondering who from the two sides of the Cold War did a worse job in Afghanistan, but after watching this documentary I'm convinced the Soviets had the bigger failure
Idk Afghanistan survived for 3 more yewrs after the Soviets left on the other hand the American Afghanistan lasted less than a week
Yeah, you can calm yourself now after both of those sweet American losses in Vietnam and Afghanistan, haha. Not to mention how much you destabilized the Middle East killing off hundreds of thousands of people.
The USSR's economy suffered big time and the war was a major contributor to its fall. The US has not suffered from it economically but it's extremely demoralizing. I think the sentiment has mostly died down now, but many people were thinking it was going to cause a political rift
The US hung around to fill the pockets of the Military Industrial Complex. The mirage of bringing freedom is great for profit. Why would we want that wasteland?
Yes to a degree, but the Americans had a bigger failure v Vietnam, much bigger, 55,000 troops dead during a similar occupation v the 9 year occupation of losing 15,000 by the Soviets.
Not communist students and military officers travel abroad to Soviet Union. They were sent. Country leadership sent the military personnel for training in USSR at the same time civil servants for training in USA, this was the start of the friction.
As an Afghan citizen I think the war with soviets was very wrong since it didn't serve our interests rather it destroyed our already "broken" country.
U think USSR did Bad, hold my beer says the USA
Big respect for the Afghans. They take no S*** from any aggressors. They still stand through the test of times. You can't change their way of life!!
75% of the country is mountains, no invader can ever take control of these, as it's simply not practical, thus the native Afghans can always retreat there, and strike when it suits them, over time the attrition on the invader adds up, the longer the invader remains, the higher attrition it will face, the british, the soviets, the americans, all learned this same lesson the hard way
@@meopen1888try winning the population over first next time
@@jonlong5413 and how do you propose to do that? the americans couldn't win them over, while being there 20+ years
Lost many battles, never lost a war ⚔️
Decades they been fighting back sheeesh. Gotta respect that.
“The idealistic, unrealistic left”- nothing has changed in 40 plus years.
Most invaders of Afghanistan throughout history, from the Mongols to the USA, were right wing.
Zbigniew Brzezinski : President Carter signed his first order on the secret assistance to Kabul’s pro-Soviet regime opponents(six months before the Soviet invasion). That day I wrote a memorandum to the President in which I told him that that assistance would cause the Soviet intervention, we did not force the Russian intervention, we just, conscientiously, increase the intervention possibilities.
--When the Soviets justified their intervention by affirming they were fighting against a secret American interference nobody believed them, though they were telling the truth. Don’t you regret it?
Zbigniew Brzezinski : Regret what? That secret operation was an excellent idea...
VOLTAIRE NETWORK 22 OCTOBER 2004
Whats crazy is how from the beginning of times countries/civilizations would come into another's country/territory trying to tell them how to live etc.. No wonder these people fought for their home land and it created decades long resistance.
I remember when they would drop mail out of the helicopters and it would say you can’t be outside after 9:00 or you would be arrested also you would have to turn off your lights because they could shoot at you
The British the Russians, can't forget the US all gave up fighting them.
British empire beat them
GRAVEYARD OF EMPIRES
Except when the british beat them
@@pooroldman5089 you seem to forget that it was your proud British country which give Afghanistan this nickname for getting their ass kicked by them. 🤣🤣because first of all, we afghans never flex about ourself as its haram and the whole world knows how strong we are.
@@King-tj6ji truth said 👍
The bombs were not disguised as children’s toys. They were made of plastic to be cheap and given a wing to change drift. They were bomblets from a cluster bomb.
Charlie Wilson's War good movie.
6:31 from the famine that occured in 1971-72 according to a documentary i saw, zahir shah apparently didnt do much about it, a factor that led to daoud khan taking the situation in his hands.
7:22 Pashtuns of the northwest were unable to join Afghanistan/declare an independent Pashtunistan, they were forced into Pakistan.
I am pakistani pashtun, our grand fathers chose to join pakistan instead of Afghanistan, keep your opinions to yourself, we don’t need you
تل به وي زمونږ ګران پاکستان🇵🇰❤️
@@kaleemulhaq1683 I am pakistani pashtun continue hating yourself you embarrassment 😂 NWFP was forced into Pakistan, there was no choice other than that. But stay happy as the government levels your province you slave.
@@kaleemulhaq1683 you're delusional. We pashtuns wanted to either join afghanistan or create pashtunistan. The punjabi government only allowed specific areas of kpk to vote, 90% of the areas weren't allowed to choose. You're brainwashed if you think we willingly joined pakistan.
@@3x0ticContent nah it is called difference in opinion. Its normal for human even people that have similiar skin colour to have differeng opinion. Jusf look at america with their polarisation
@@adammazeli you can't compare the two. They are both totally different situations.
As a Russian I can say Afghans have proven to be the strongest in the middle east. To push off the USSR and US nobody has done that. We Russians today still dont like or accept most of the decisions of Gorbachev and Yeltsin. This war in Afghanistan was useless. And the actions of how the war was being handled in Chechnya is sickening. They were sacrificing Russian soldiers like nothing while bombing tf of Chechnya like nothing. Also didn't help our brothers and sisters od Serbia against NATO.
So basically, God bless Putin.
U vas bred
Russia couldnt help out serbia because they werent financially ready themselves yet. Russia beat chechnya through cheating and alot of will. Losing the first of the 3 battles. So dont feel bad. Russia will go back to the 90s though because if they get thru ukraine nato will do everything in its power to annoy russia and bring its economy down. Then putin will do something dangerous. N ukes
the guy invading ukraine
No war was not useless or unsuccessful. Today 14000 young Russians are dying every year from heroin supplied by Islamist afganistan. It's west propaganda and Yeltsin puppet of west halted military and humanitarian aid TO DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC OF AFGHANISTAN (DRA). Even DRA collapsed months after USSR collapsed.
We will tear your country in pieces
Soviets left because their government was collapsing not because of the Afghans. At least they took their equipment with them.
West🚬AFGHANS 🦁
@@umaraziz8274 Fake history. :D
It doesn't matter who, what or where, when it comes to war somewhere America is involved.
When the Afghans defeated US NATO after invading that country. Maybe US nato thought Afghanistan was Yugoslavia or Libya.
Well, naturally it would take some time to drive them out. It’s like a cake, it takes time to bake
@R J You were in Afghanistan for twenty years because of the support of the Afghan people and the government, but you could not even defeat the Taliban. Imagine if the government and the people were fighting you, no one would find the bodies of your soldiers.
@@pubggamerfrank7630 the us could bomb the hell out of your third world country and win the war in days. But they aren't cowards who use civilians as human shields and run and hide when the US soilders arrive. US soilders killed farm more goat farming taliban soilders and didn't lose a single battle against the taliban scum. The only time when afganistan won a war was when they were backed and supported by a western power
@@pooroldman5089 The American country is like a small child who has a knife in his hand and with that knife he limits men to death, but without a knife he wets his pants from fear. This was the best example I could tell for you and your country🤫🤫🤫🏳🇦🇫
@R J just have space of 13 to 15 % in Afghanistan US occupied not all Afghanistan in 20 years with strong military and moderns war fare machinery we pushtoon obey to one and only not to the devils ever
When it comes to heckmatyar and the accusations of desired and attempted territorial expansion he’s no different than most of the mujahideen leaders except for basically two groups one being Massouds Northern Alliance and ‘The One Eyed King’ Mullah Omars (if I remember correctly 🙏) Taliban. In fact when I think about Afghan history between 1930’s-2000 I tend to compare it to Chinese history between 1910-1970’s they both went from kingdoms/dynasties to republic and coalition style governments, they both had a warlord period except at different points in their time lines being 1918-1934 for China and then about 1987/88-1997/8 for Afghanistan, they both had to fight off the yolk of a much larger invader with almost incomprehensible tactics and technology and came out on top using gorilla war supplies from the United States, for both nations the last two factions standing after years of fighting a technologically advanced occupier and themselves was a secular and democratic faction and a radical faction, and for both beautiful countries sadly the radical faction won out.
Whosoever have more support, more people, more fighters along with leadership of exceptional quality in their camps had won.Majority of population were with radicals due one reason or other resulting in defeat of other side. Along with this we 98% heard, watch, read the propaganda suits to the west to shape our liking or disliking.
The Title of this video should be "How Abrahamic Religions destroyed Paganism" or "How Capitalist nations destroyed Communism".
25:23 is that Jamal Khashoggi sitting next to Reagan ?
When the next potential invader stops to think twice, that'll be progress 👍
May God protect my mother's people. The fiercest, proudest, bravest and most humble and hospitable of warriors. They give honor when received with honor and retribution when sullied. No man has ever enslaved or conquered them though many have tried. They are the tribes and they have their covenant with God. It brings tears to my eyes to think that these simple people have become a benchmark where hubris-filled empires venture to earn a feather in their cap. And like all the rest they lose. But they leave a trail of blood and death. The arrogant U.S. learned that lesson after 20 years.
How do we learn our lesson because we pushed them back so how do we learn last night the only reason why they why they came out because we left there in 2021 after 20 years they came out the mountains after we love we thought that they had their country back but no so as isis came out of the mountains they just gave up and and then I assist take over the country again
@@gregoryking8574 I will tell you how. Curb your latent racist/my culture is superior tendencies...or the classic "white man's burden" and let these societies evolve on their own. They do not need your help. And the bitter reality is that you do not go into the third world to "assist" or "help." You go to exploit. Your soldiers fight for ExxonMobil, Microsoft, various defense contractors, government contract companies and so forth. And in the last 40 years, thanks to your rabid and insane feminism, your society has become soft, weak, and feminized. Feminized males can never win in close combat against third world fighters.
Your mom is from Afghanistan 🙏
@@fghan786 Yusufzai tribe
@@tibzig1 great where were you live ?
My Neighbor, was in Afghanistan back then, helping them against Russia, he said Russia was using T55 and T62 Tanks ,
Afghanistan was the soviets Vietnam and also America’s second Vietnam…