We used to say that Afghanistan War was the downfall of USSR where they lost 15 000 dead.. Mind you USSR was a powerhouse with almost 250 million inhabitants.. Now imagine the impact that the War in Ukraine has on Russia? Till now there's at least 60-70 000 dead in 2,5 years of combat, plus Russia is but a shadow compared to USSR with around 144 million people..
The Soviet-Afghan war was the straw that broke the camel's back when it came to the USSR's fall among the many internal decay issues. The casualties in the war were nothing but a figure, compared to the 10 million casualties in WW2. Russia is only able to sustain today's wars because communism as we know is a failed system that ultimately leads to bankruptcy in the long run, however, that is no longer an issue. Russia can sustain a war and will do it no matter the losses. In the Russian military doctrine, the combatant was always cheaper than the gear. We should thank all the politicians who thought investing in the import of Russian strategic resources like gas and oil after the annexation of Crimea was a good idea.
US National Security advisor Zbigniew Brzezinski bragged about prompting the Soviet Union to invade Afghanistan so that it could get its “Vietnam”. Brzezinksi said he convinced Carter to sign the first directive for secret aid to opponents of the pro-Soviet regime in Kabul on July 3, 1979 in an effort to goad the Red Army into invading. “I wrote a note to the president in which I explained to him that in my opinion this aid was going to induce a Soviet military intervention,” said Brzezinksi.
During the war on terror, it took the Americans 20 years to move $2 trillion dollars from US tax bases to US defence corporations and to replace the taliban with the taliban, except this time they had M4 Carbines and Humvees !!!
So? The Soviets left their fair share of weapons and vehicles there. Including tanks. Humvee's are unsuitable for combat and are obsolete in the US. They're no better than Jeeps, just bigger.
Comme les américains au Vietnam . ou en Corée . ou en Afghanistan . ou en Irak , par deux fois . les doctrines militaires des pays développés ne sont pas adaptées a la guérilla .
Shows you dont know history The main reason why the american forces didnt "win" vietnam was because of constraights placed upon them by the government. Korea: the UN could of taken all of korea but didnt want to fight china. Iraq: as soon as they got there act together and learnt, it ended quickly (to an extent) If we look at france and vietnam for instance you will see france faced the same problems and the result was the same.
Always the same fake history. Lets read Brzezinski's interview january 1998: Brzezinski: Yes. According to the official version of history, CIA aid to the Mujahadeen began during 1980, that is to say, after the Soviet army invaded Afghanistan, 24 Dec 1979. But the reality, secretly guarded until now, is completely otherwise: Indeed, it was July 3, 1979 that President Carter signed the first directive for secret aid to the opponents of the pro-Soviet regime in Kabul. And that very day, I wrote a note to the president in which I explained to him that in my opinion this aid was going to induce a Soviet military intervention. Q: Despite this risk, you were an advocate of this covert action. But perhaps you yourself desired this Soviet entry into war and looked to provoke it? B: It isn't quite that. We didn't push the Russians to intervene, but we knowingly increased the probability that they would." So Soviet Union came on the demand of the Afghan government!"It should be also noted that Afghan regime resisted till 1993, 2 years after the fall of soviet union (the indication of a wide popular support) but that they could not resist more due to the huge support by United States to djihadists? So it is not only Soviet Union which lost something but also the Afghan governement and his laws in favor of women rights. On the other hand Ben Laden's support retruned to USA on et 11/09. How intelligent was this policy.
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
if afgan communist government were remain untill today. it may be a good country. but west wanted a very good country more than soviet back country . is it here today ? the usa was destroyed this country. usa can never refuse this sinful act.
Good documentary. The quality of some of the footage in this documentary is brilliant. The Americans weren’t happy with the USSR supplying arms to the Viet Cong. So supported the Mujahideen. US press (The “Independent”) even branded Bin L4den an anti-Soviet Warrior. 30:54 “If the mujahideen aimed your weapons a bit better, nobody would see your film” 😂 Fascinating seeing how women looked/dressed in Afghanistan before the religious fundamentalists came to power. It’s sad to see what has become of Afghanistan and the former republics of the USSR.
I agree with u about how messed up Afghanistan is now but regarding the former soviet countries? I think they're better off not being under soviet control. Especially regarding their freedom. Some of them may be ruled by tyrants, ie chechnya and Belarus but the majority seem 2 have fared better than under the communist regime.
@@Mongieboy I disagree. Citizens of Moldova, Ukraine, Belarus, Azerbaijan, Abkhazia, Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan, Kazakhstan, Kryghistan, Tajikistan and Russia all voted overwhelmingly in favour of the preservation of the USSR in 1991. I tell you who got more freedom after the destruction of the USSR; a minority of rich people. Oligarchs were created overnight. They stole former public infrastructure from the people. Dissolution didn’t benefit the tens of millions of workers in each former republic. A huge rise in inequality, unemployment, and even the emergence of child prostitution in post USSR isn’t “freedom”. The world is no better off since the USSR disappeared. But I suppose it depends on which social class one’s opinion comes from/represents. A United Nations’ report in 1998 said, “No region in the world has suffered such reversals in the 1990s as have the countries of the former Soviet Union and Eastern Europe.” People living in poverty increased by over 150 million, a figure greater than the total combined population of France, the UK, the Netherlands, and Scandinavia. The national income declined “drastically” in the face of “some of the most rampant inflation witnessed anywhere on the globe.”
The main difference being that the americans weren't defeated military in Afghanistan. Also, you lack the capacity to understand what you read. They were referring to the taliban as terrorists, not the afghani people.
@@mithrandil420 And because much of the money is being laundered and diverted to other entities/individuals. War is a racket, corporations, CEOs, Elites/Oligarchs, and The Military Industrial Complex all benefit and get a slice of the meatgrinder pie. Massive corruption and profit over a proxy war that could have been avoided AND ended by now with a little diplomacy and respect. President Trump 2024!
@@ngonzales3781 Mostly expensive for Russians. For western countries one of the cheapest ways to destroy Russian military capabilities by sending mostly outdated equipment from stocks that otherwise needs costly disposal in near future.
@@MyFilmExperiment "cheapest way to destroy russian military" yea why exactly? Why do we need a tiny sliver of eastern land that was russian until 1993?
Thanks for the information, for the documentary. Since Highschool days I long to know more about this part of history which the schools and schoolbooks won't teach a lot.
In spite of billions of dollars the contrerevolutionary bands couldn’t win the war. The Afghan army, without the soviet presence, had vanquished the bandits from 1988 to April 1992. Simply it was impossible without the economic and military support of the Soviet Union to continue the war…
Nice fan fiction. In reality, the mujahideen remained a sizable force after the Soviet withdrawal and by 1990 they controlled over 90% of the territory. So much for Soviet training.
@@juliankraus1011 sizable force that failed take city of Jalalabad from Afghan Army.Only in April 1992 , Kabul fall to the mujahideen because Shahnawaz Tanai failed coup attempt in March 1990 and August 1991 new Boris Yeltsin on arrival his power decide curtailed support economy/military aids to the Republic of Afghanistan.
Soviet occupation of Afghanistan - An Geo- political issue. An issue which paved the way to enter the U S in Afghanistan for 20 years occupation. The Soviet occupation - Was it right or wrong is an subject of debate. But the occupation afterwards definitely was not right. As the aim was not clear and the achievement is zero.
You're full of sh*t. The US did not occupy Afghanistan....and Afghanistan went back to Taliban rule due to the population of Afghanistan not having the will and fortitude to carry on the fight against Taliban oppression. The US was not going to be the Afghans' big brother forever and the little brother never did learn to stand on his own two feet.
Les états-unis, l'Australie, le Canada et tous les pays européens de l'o.t.a.n ont subi une lourde défaite en Afghanistan ! Les Talibans les ont poursuivis jusqu'à l'aéroport !
Il y a l’excellent film culte de Kevin Reynolds de 1988 inspiré par ces événements : La Bête de Guerre (Titre original The Beast) Il n’a pas pris une ride malgré son âge grâce à son excellente réalisation et sa superbe bande son de Mark Isham. A voir absolument !
Gen Boris Gromov ... Hero of the Soviet Union, hero of the Seige of Khost, commander of the 40th CAA. Brilliant Tactician and Superb Leader of his Men. Sad day to see the Red Army of today...Giants of Yore.
The Russian general mustve wrote the book on 'cope' and 'how best to invade a country but blame the US'! it is one of Putins favourite reads. a bedside must for him.
una lástima para putin que ya su invasión se transformó en una guerra de desgaste que tardará unos 15 años en concluir sino se retiran como lo hizo su país en el pasado en Afganistán al ver que fracaso su ocupación
@@sam-75- is this the feared Russian Cyber warriors shitting on my anti Putin comment? we were told they could stop the west dead in its tracks with their internet prowess. all we got was JFK and alien conspiracies and maybe guys who start shitposts with 'oh my' !
Putin now has nothing to do with the Soviet Union and its presence in Afghanistan. If you really want to understand the reasons for this, then just take the reasons for the US being there and turn them around. It's simple
in the entire war period from 1979 to 1989 the Mujahedin did not get any modern weapons against the Soviets, the best weapon was only Stinger Raketten, which was also delivered much too late, The Afghans paid for this struggle with their blood de Ukraine gets the most modern weapons, every Afghan could dream of that. the Ukraine is Lucky to get the best Weapon and so much support . The Afghans are the toughest fighters there has ever been, so no superpower can win in Afghanistan, that was also a mistake of the USA to invade Afghanistan after 2001.
The title "graveyard of empires" is pretty fitting 4 Afghanistan. No matter what u think of the people or place u have 2 admit they are a hardy people. Very tough and resilient. Great documentary. 👍
Stop with that "graveyard of empires" joke, Persians & Macedonians invaded what is now Afghanistan without problem, same for Mongols and Soviet Army didn't lose a single battle outhere, its objectives were to secure cities and main roads then support Afghan army in charge to fight the mujahidin. It was a political failure but definitely not a military defeat. USSR under Stalin would have nailed it fast and clean. USSR didn't fall because of Afghanistan, and USA are still here despite their withdrawal
@@SebHansa it's not a literal thing man, Jesus! Relax. What is meant by it is the fact that however long a country invades 4 they will always inevitably skulk off without achieving their objectives, ie ruling, colonisation or whatever. U said it urself. The reason russia never lost a battle is because they didn't really have any. They had skirmishes at most. Once they received stinger missiles the Russians lost the air advantage. The yanks left, why? And what happened then? Not sure what books ur reading or documentaries ur watching. Not the same as me. Khoda hafez.
@@SebHansa Siege of Khost went on for 7 years before Soviet troops broke through to relieve the garrison and bring supplies. When they left, the siege continued. They also launched numerous offensives into the Panjshir Valley and never gained complete control of the area and these were multi-divisional SOVIET units involved. 6 offensives in just the first 2 years with pretty much all of them defeated.
So, no difference between Afghanistan and Ukraine. The Americans and Europeans wanted Russia to intervene militarily. What could be better for them? They wanted Russia to go to war so they could weaken the country economically, militarily, and politically. Why else would they subsidize Ukraine with billions and BILLION$??
when the proxy war is in the middle east, africa, or south america, the hashtags stay away...when white europeans are getting killed its suddenly a battle for humanity
la plus grand déroute quand même pas.. disons que si a l'époque les afghan n'était pas soutenu et équipé comme le sont actuellement les ukros, les soviétiques les auraient roulé dessus...
derrotaron al imperio soviético y al imperio estadounidense por eso tiene mi respeto Afganistán, lo cual no significa que me gusta Afganistán ni los terroristas que hoy gobiernan ese país pero la verdad no se puede ocultar por mucho tiempo, y para mi es muy interesante de ver como la población de la urss y los militares no le veían sentido a esa ocupación y por eso no querían estar allí
The insanity looking at this and Ukraine. Is it because of the dictator now compared to the premier then? With so many current losses when compared to afghan war, it’s just insanity and horror. Very interesting to hear about the heroin brought back
It was Chernobyl that was the nail in the coffin for the Soviet union. The Afghanistan war didn’t help, but the Afghan war alone wouldn’t have been enough to break up the Soviet union.
Angola was the final nail. Russian vetrans of Afghanistan said that nothing could have prepared them for what happened to them in southern Angola at the hands of the South Africans.
USA gave Afghans money, all kinds of support, and high tech weapons like stingers to eliminate Soviet air threat. War ended 1989. 12 years later Taliban was fighting the America after Spt 11 attacks. If Soviets did not invade Afghanistan it may not have collapsed the same way as it did 2 years after Afghan war ended. Sep 11 attacks almost certainly would not of happened. Entire world history changed because 2 superpowers were fighting over waist-land called Afghanistan. Today it’s governed by Taliban whose laws and conduct resembles the years 1200’s. 1000 years of human evolution and progress out of the window. If you are born as a woman in Afghanistan you rank below family pet.
The Soviets and China did the same thing in Vietnam with the Vietminh/Vietcong. The effects were different. Because the real enemy here, by far, is Koranic religious ideology.
@@mytboss it’s nice to send a few word response without any thoughtful explanation. What what it sounds like I have forgotten more about the subject than you have even known.
To get your info right the real reason britian russia USA and nato was sent not went but sent to afghanistan because it was the only country that was still establishing sharia law there problem was with islam nothing else they read our book very carefully I'm a muslim and they probably have more knowledge about my religion than me because they know the future war with the west will start from afghanistan & pakistan and islam will spread throughout the whole world and pakistan afghanistan will become a world super power. For your info about the women islam says hevean is beneath a mother's feet and if a person has 2 or more daughters he will enter hevean no question and there's many more statuses islam has gave women you have just been fed western lies
For Uni Soviet, Actually, this war in Afganistan was the caused the fall of Soviet, by pray of Afganistan's people to the GOD, and by pressure of internasional policy... What an unfortunately
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"..if the Soviet Union let another political party come into existence, they would still be a one-party state, because everybody would join the other party.." - Ronald Reagan .
As a child I always admired the Americans for their valor and honor but the older I got the more I realized that the U.S. is more often times the bad guy pretending to be the good guy and causing conflicts all over the globe.
@@tl9223 You mean the dude that was armed and formed by the USA? That lead an entire organisation that was able to exist only because of US suplied weapon and training? Yeah, wonder how all of this could have happened...
@@tl9223 Are you joking? You think the US only started meddling in the Middle East after the attacks? Nothing spurred that on?😂 Anti-US sentiment only gained traction in the ME because the US was there, doing US shit. Funding t*rrorist groups, coup’ing elected leaders (‘53), & backing dictators (can’t forget the Shah. For 25 whole years. For oil). Honestly, it was a matter of when, not if. Awful for the civilians caught up in the government’s mess, but the response was also wholly unjustifiable for the Afghani civilians too. They didn’t deserve to be invaded, bombed, and occupied for 20 years, for something almost all of them had absolutely zero part in.
51:34 ... funny.., so funny.. sometimes its difficult to understand if we are talking about Afghanistan or.. Ukraine lol... Time passes, people change and interests surround objectives that vary little from era to era.
Ya know, I've learned from America especially and other countries that help other countries. That a country should just help a country to be kind and not try to convert them to their government. It never works. If a country just helped another then maybe the kindness would win over a country or atleast have a friend in them and Not an enemy. Too much war and fighting. Let us help each other and stop fighting! ❤❤❤🙏🙏🙏
No se parece en nada a Ucrania. En ese tiempo no existían los drones con las capacidades y las cantidades que existen hoy. Era otra estrategia, otro tipo de guerra, otro ambiente geográfico otro tipo de población con capacidades diferentes. Los soviéticos se prepararon décadas para pelear contra la OTAN en Europa y uno de los lugares era justamente Ucrania
Yes, dif, just exponential now in regards to weapons and money spent. Modernization allows for more deaths, bu5 its more or less the same thing. Communist gov was kicked out of Afghanistan an$ the soviets invaded. Proo Russian gov kicked out of Ukraine and the Russians invaded. Same exact thing, just slower mortality rate. All war sux.
@@burninhellfish Ni l'un ni l'autre toute seulles, c'est une description en temps (qu'il faut pour accomplir la distance) pour parcourir à la vitesse de la lumière ( 299 792,458 km/s ) Donc si je veux parcourir on va dire 18 millions de Km , le temps qu'il me faudra sera de 1 minute . Il était plus simple de dire tout simplement ; dans 2 ou 3 millions d'années sans ajouter " lumière " qui en effet ne veut rien dire dans ce cas-ci
@@PROBERevealer Une année lumière est bien une unité de distance. C'est utiliser pour situer des astres en disant qu'ils sont a un tel nombre d'année lumière de nous, par exemple.
@@YvesTagro-wv3wb la France a gagné toutes ses guerres contre l'Allemagne. Et le Vietnam on en est parti après une courte défaite, on a pasbprisvune déculottée. T'es complètement débile c'est ça ?
Et qui plus est on formait et armer les talibans c'est des Américains qui ont créé les talibans et les talibans ils ont chassé d'Irak je sais pas de quoi on parle là lol😂
Talib not weak, Ukraine is very weak teribble weak only with his friends they are a little little bit sneaky towards Russia. Ukraine know its a sneaky country
Jérémie, 17:5 - Ainsi parle l`Éternel: Maudit soit l`homme qui se confie dans l`homme, Qui prend la chair pour son appui, Et qui détourne son coeur de l`Éternel! !!!
Le bouddhisme n'est plus majoritaire en Afghanistan à partir de 1050 seulement. Et à la fin du 19eme siècle, l'émir Abdur Rahman Khan mène une guerre contre les derniers non-musulmans, des montagnards guerriers du Kafiristan (Nouristan).
? The military defeat to take varsaw (1920). Some lost battles during the German invasion (Kiev-Smolensk../especially at the beginnin of the war) with considerable losses. You say a little bit of anything "American propaganda " to my opinion .😊
We used to say that Afghanistan War was the downfall of USSR where they lost 15 000 dead.. Mind you USSR was a powerhouse with almost 250 million inhabitants..
Now imagine the impact that the War in Ukraine has on Russia? Till now there's at least 60-70 000 dead in 2,5 years of combat, plus Russia is but a shadow compared to USSR with around 144 million people..
The Soviet-Afghan war was the straw that broke the camel's back when it came to the USSR's fall among the many internal decay issues. The casualties in the war were nothing but a figure, compared to the 10 million casualties in WW2. Russia is only able to sustain today's wars because communism as we know is a failed system that ultimately leads to bankruptcy in the long run, however, that is no longer an issue. Russia can sustain a war and will do it no matter the losses. In the Russian military doctrine, the combatant was always cheaper than the gear. We should thank all the politicians who thought investing in the import of Russian strategic resources like gas and oil after the annexation of Crimea was a good idea.
Putin will be long dead before the current demographic problems really start to kick in...
Now imagine america considering the 20 year occupation and still coming out as losers with trillions in debt and inflated currency.
@@WasnaGsince the USA is the world reserve currency. The world will follow the USA financial path. Enjoy the ride
@@dr.johnnyfever9194😂 you mean the west because that reserve currency looking not too good
US National Security advisor Zbigniew Brzezinski bragged about prompting the Soviet Union to invade Afghanistan so that it could get its “Vietnam”.
Brzezinksi said he convinced Carter to sign the first directive for secret aid to opponents of the pro-Soviet regime in Kabul on July 3, 1979 in an effort to goad the Red Army into invading.
“I wrote a note to the president in which I explained to him that in my opinion this aid was going to induce a Soviet military intervention,” said Brzezinksi.
Excelente documentário! Valeu por postar.
very interesting thanks
During the war on terror, it took the Americans 20 years to move $2 trillion dollars from US tax bases to US defence corporations and to replace the taliban with the taliban, except this time they had M4 Carbines and Humvees !!!
So? The Soviets left their fair share of weapons and vehicles there. Including tanks. Humvee's are unsuitable for combat and are obsolete in the US. They're no better than Jeeps, just bigger.
Afghanistan isn't doing great right now, we did alot more damage than that
@@scottkrater2131 it was not only Americans that F up Afghanistan, NATO/western countries joined in in some ways than one.
@@francojustthat156 The only ones to F up in Afghanistan were Osama and the Taliban who thought we wouldn't come.
Larry go back to your minimum wage job and unfulfilling life bro 😂
Seeing videos of arabs before fundamentalist took over is wild.
Especially women. Very Sad for Afghan, Iranians, etc
Afghans are not Arabs, they belong to differing ethnic groups, Pashtun and the like.
@@medusagorgo5146 thanks. I knew there was multiple ethnicities.
I just always assumed Arabs bc middle Eastern
Afghanistan is located in Central Asia and not Middle East.
'Uncultured swine'
Tous les pays qui ont ont combattu contre les afghans ont tous perdu.
Comme les américains au Vietnam . ou en Corée . ou en Afghanistan . ou en Irak , par deux fois . les doctrines militaires des pays développés ne sont pas adaptées a la guérilla .
Shows you dont know history
The main reason why the american forces didnt "win" vietnam was because of constraights placed upon them by the government.
Korea: the UN could of taken all of korea but didnt want to fight china.
Iraq: as soon as they got there act together and learnt, it ended quickly (to an extent)
If we look at france and vietnam for instance you will see france faced the same problems and the result was the same.
@@BlutoandCo still can't deny that the US was defeated by peasants three times in a span of 60-odd years.
Always the same fake history. Lets read Brzezinski's interview january 1998:
Brzezinski: Yes. According to the official version of history, CIA aid to the Mujahadeen began during 1980, that is to say, after the Soviet army invaded Afghanistan, 24 Dec 1979. But the reality, secretly guarded until now, is completely otherwise: Indeed, it was July 3, 1979 that President Carter signed the first directive for secret aid to the opponents of the pro-Soviet regime in Kabul. And that very day, I wrote a note to the president in which I explained to him that in my opinion this aid was going to induce a Soviet military intervention.
Q: Despite this risk, you were an advocate of this covert action. But perhaps you yourself desired this Soviet entry into war and looked to provoke it?
B: It isn't quite that. We didn't push the Russians to intervene, but we knowingly increased the probability that they would."
So Soviet Union came on the demand of the Afghan government!"It should be also noted that Afghan regime resisted till 1993, 2 years after the fall of soviet union (the indication of a wide popular support) but that they could not resist more due to the huge support by United States to djihadists? So it is not only Soviet Union which lost something but also the Afghan governement and his laws in favor of women rights. On the other hand Ben Laden's support retruned to USA on et 11/09. How intelligent was this policy.
Can anyone identify the song that starts at 39:08?
The origins of 9/11/01 could be traced to the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan in December 1979
Please do your own research about the so called Israeli art students during 9/11
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
if afgan communist government were remain untill today. it may be a good country. but west wanted a very good country more than soviet back country . is it here today ? the usa was destroyed this country. usa can never refuse this sinful act.
@@pasindukanishka70 you do know it was the Afghan people that rebelled against the Communist Government right?
Rip is not applicable to afghans only soviets, cause they would happily chop off your hat if you said so.
@@Sean-sn9ld yes it is. Between Kabul and the land farmers, it's the opposite in politics.
Good documentary. The quality of some of the footage in this documentary is brilliant.
The Americans weren’t happy with the USSR supplying arms to the Viet Cong. So supported the Mujahideen. US press (The “Independent”) even branded Bin L4den an anti-Soviet Warrior.
30:54 “If the mujahideen aimed your weapons a bit better, nobody would see your film” 😂
Fascinating seeing how women looked/dressed in Afghanistan before the religious fundamentalists came to power.
It’s sad to see what has become of Afghanistan and the former republics of the USSR.
Inggris , Uni Soviet , dan Amerika bersama sekutunya , DIKALAHKAN oleh ALLĀH melalui TANGAN PARA MUJĀHIDĪN.
I agree with u about how messed up Afghanistan is now but regarding the former soviet countries? I think they're better off not being under soviet control. Especially regarding their freedom. Some of them may be ruled by tyrants, ie chechnya and Belarus but the majority seem 2 have fared better than under the communist regime.
@@Mongieboy I disagree. Citizens of Moldova, Ukraine, Belarus, Azerbaijan, Abkhazia, Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan, Kazakhstan, Kryghistan, Tajikistan and Russia all voted overwhelmingly in favour of the preservation of the USSR in 1991.
I tell you who got more freedom after the destruction of the USSR; a minority of rich people. Oligarchs were created overnight. They stole former public infrastructure from the people. Dissolution didn’t benefit the tens of millions of workers in each former republic.
A huge rise in inequality, unemployment, and even the emergence of child prostitution in post USSR isn’t “freedom”.
The world is no better off since the USSR disappeared. But I suppose it depends on which social class one’s opinion comes from/represents.
A United Nations’ report in 1998 said, “No region in the world has suffered such reversals in the 1990s as have the countries of the former Soviet Union and Eastern Europe.” People living in poverty increased by over 150 million, a figure greater than the total combined population of France, the UK, the Netherlands, and Scandinavia. The national income declined “drastically” in the face of “some of the most rampant inflation witnessed anywhere on the globe.”
@@Dave.93 post Soviet states full of corruption and crime. That things you call as freedom?"
@Mongieboy That's completely wrong they were free under the Soviet Union and captialism has only brought them misery.
one of the best documentary...ever build....n explained so nicely
So, you have seen every documentary ever?
Because that is the only way you can know if this one is 'one of the best documentary...ever build'.
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@@McRocket Don't be obnoxious.
@@McRocket What are you 9yrs. old?
Documentaries cannot be "built".
Documentaries are MADE.
Hahaha diese Nato Propaganda
In That war time the nato and USA was calling afghani ppl ( striver ) , but when USA start war with Afghanistan changed call to terrorists
Who is this Neto guy you are talking?
@@buritomaster he is about to morb!
The main difference being that the americans weren't defeated military in Afghanistan. Also, you lack the capacity to understand what you read. They were referring to the taliban as terrorists, not the afghani people.
Allah doesnt exist
Maybe the Tailiban should have given up Bin Laden when we asked them, there would have been no reason to invade.
“May God keep you away from the venom of the cobra, the teeth of the tiger, and the revenge of the Afghans.”- Alexander the Great
When 10 years of Afghanistan cost less than 2 years in Ukraine
Because your not facing peasants with aks rather an well trained well supplied and well organazied army.
@@mithrandil420 And because much of the money is being laundered and diverted to other entities/individuals. War is a racket, corporations, CEOs, Elites/Oligarchs, and The Military Industrial Complex all benefit and get a slice of the meatgrinder pie. Massive corruption and profit over a proxy war that could have been avoided AND ended by now with a little diplomacy and respect. President Trump 2024!
Supporting the Ukrainians is whats really expensive
@@ngonzales3781
Mostly expensive for Russians. For western countries one of the cheapest ways to destroy Russian military capabilities by sending mostly outdated equipment from stocks that otherwise needs costly disposal in near future.
@@MyFilmExperiment "cheapest way to destroy russian military" yea why exactly? Why do we need a tiny sliver of eastern land that was russian until 1993?
Excellent documentary with no editing out of dead bodies. This is how it should be RUclips....
Thanks for the information, for the documentary. Since Highschool days I long to know more about this part of history which the schools and schoolbooks won't teach a lot.
look at all those mountains some jerk told me the earth was flat but mountains are bumpy lol
Muhahaha
Dan menjadi penyesalan bagi Inggris , Uni Soviet , bahkan bagi Amerika Serikat dan Sekutu-sekutunya.
If you don’t learn from history, you’re doomed to repeat it. …….Oh, wait…. Nevermind. Lol.
In spite of billions of dollars the contrerevolutionary bands couldn’t win the war. The Afghan army, without the soviet presence, had vanquished the bandits from 1988 to April 1992. Simply it was impossible without the economic and military support of the Soviet Union to continue the war…
As an American this Sounds familiar
Mujahideen factions later on destroying 80% city of Kabul in 1996" . Truly, "Warriors of Islam".
Nice fan fiction. In reality, the mujahideen remained a sizable force after the Soviet withdrawal and by 1990 they controlled over 90% of the territory. So much for Soviet training.
@@juliankraus1011 The only part of Afghanistan bandits controlled were their bases in Pakistan…
@@juliankraus1011 sizable force that failed take city of Jalalabad from Afghan Army.Only in April 1992 , Kabul fall to the mujahideen because Shahnawaz Tanai failed coup attempt in March 1990 and August 1991 new Boris Yeltsin on arrival his power decide curtailed support economy/military aids to the Republic of Afghanistan.
Very interesting. Thank you.
If you could invent a time machine..... how far back would you go to warn people to just not bother going into Afghanistan?
I dont know, look at the location, its in a quite vital place
China is their now lets see what happens 🤔🤔
I wouldn't waste my time. If you think you can invade Afghanistan and win you are probably insane.
Soviet occupation of Afghanistan - An Geo- political issue.
An issue which paved the way to enter the U S in Afghanistan for 20 years occupation.
The Soviet occupation - Was it right or wrong is an subject of debate.
But the occupation afterwards definitely was not right. As the aim was not clear and the achievement is zero.
You're full of sh*t. The US did not occupy Afghanistan....and Afghanistan went back to Taliban rule due to the population of Afghanistan not having the will and fortitude to carry on the fight against Taliban oppression. The US was not going to be the Afghans' big brother forever and the little brother never did learn to stand on his own two feet.
Les états-unis, l'Australie, le Canada et tous les pays européens de l'o.t.a.n ont subi une lourde défaite en Afghanistan ! Les Talibans les ont poursuivis jusqu'à l'aéroport !
Il y a l’excellent film culte de Kevin Reynolds de 1988 inspiré par ces événements :
La Bête de Guerre (Titre original The Beast)
Il n’a pas pris une ride malgré son âge grâce à son excellente réalisation et sa superbe bande son de Mark Isham. A voir absolument !
I have this movie, you are right it’s great.
Gen Boris Gromov ... Hero of the Soviet Union, hero of the Seige of Khost, commander of the 40th CAA. Brilliant Tactician and Superb Leader of his Men.
Sad day to see the Red Army of today...Giants of Yore.
The Russian general mustve wrote the book on 'cope' and 'how best to invade a country but blame the US'! it is one of Putins favourite reads. a bedside must for him.
una lástima para putin que ya su invasión se transformó en una guerra de desgaste que tardará unos 15 años en concluir sino se retiran como lo hizo su país en el pasado en Afganistán al ver que fracaso su ocupación
Oh my gaaaaaaaaaaaaay
yes
@@sam-75- is this the feared Russian Cyber warriors shitting on my anti Putin comment? we were told they could stop the west dead in its tracks with their internet prowess. all we got was JFK and alien conspiracies and maybe guys who start shitposts with 'oh my' !
Putin now has nothing to do with the Soviet Union and its presence in Afghanistan. If you really want to understand the reasons for this, then just take the reasons for the US being there and turn them around. It's simple
in the entire war period from 1979 to 1989 the Mujahedin did not get any modern weapons against the Soviets, the best weapon was only Stinger Raketten, which was also delivered much too late,
The Afghans paid for this struggle with their blood
de Ukraine gets the most modern weapons, every Afghan could dream of that. the Ukraine is Lucky to get the best Weapon and so much support .
The Afghans are the toughest fighters there has ever been, so no superpower can win in Afghanistan, that was also a mistake of the USA to invade Afghanistan after 2001.
The title "graveyard of empires" is pretty fitting 4 Afghanistan. No matter what u think of the people or place u have 2 admit they are a hardy people. Very tough and resilient. Great documentary. 👍
Di era modern :
Inggris , Uni Soviet , dan Amerika bersama sekutunya , DIKALAHKAN oleh ALLĀH melalui TANGAN PARA MUJĀHIDĪN AFGHANISTAN.
Stop with that "graveyard of empires" joke, Persians & Macedonians invaded what is now Afghanistan without problem, same for Mongols and Soviet Army didn't lose a single battle outhere, its objectives were to secure cities and main roads then support Afghan army in charge to fight the mujahidin. It was a political failure but definitely not a military defeat. USSR under Stalin would have nailed it fast and clean. USSR didn't fall because of Afghanistan, and USA are still here despite their withdrawal
@@SebHansa it's not a literal thing man, Jesus! Relax. What is meant by it is the fact that however long a country invades 4 they will always inevitably skulk off without achieving their objectives, ie ruling, colonisation or whatever. U said it urself. The reason russia never lost a battle is because they didn't really have any. They had skirmishes at most. Once they received stinger missiles the Russians lost the air advantage. The yanks left, why? And what happened then? Not sure what books ur reading or documentaries ur watching. Not the same as me. Khoda hafez.
@@SebHansa Soviets didnt lose a single battle? LOL
@@SebHansa Siege of Khost went on for 7 years before Soviet troops broke through to relieve the garrison and bring supplies. When they left, the siege continued.
They also launched numerous offensives into the Panjshir Valley and never gained complete control of the area and these were multi-divisional SOVIET units involved.
6 offensives in just the first 2 years with pretty much all of them defeated.
Havent people been trying to invade Afghanistan for 100's of years.my university hostory course was 40 yrs ago
Ce fut aussi une déroute pour l´otan😂. Balayez d´abord devant vos portes
I bought a Russian AK47 bayonet at Torkam in 1992. Wonder what happened to the soldier.
Never been used and only dropped once
@@Capydachi Never heard that before.
So no difference from going into Ukraine then, keeping
the population in the dark .
So, no difference between Afghanistan and Ukraine. The Americans and Europeans wanted Russia to intervene militarily. What could be better for them? They wanted Russia to go to war so they could weaken the country economically, militarily, and politically. Why else would they subsidize Ukraine with billions and BILLION$??
when the proxy war is in the middle east, africa, or south america, the hashtags stay away...when white europeans are getting killed its suddenly a battle for humanity
I feel like the real parallel here is to the US invading Afghanistan and staying there for double the amount of time the Soviets did.
Why did Putin go in? Let's see how much you know geo-politics?
You tell us @@thehealthychefri
Contrats de 10 ans Afghanistan union Soviétique 1979 à 1989
Le cimetière des empires.
イギリス、ソ連、アメリカも負けている
Inggris , Uni Soviet , dan Amerika bersama sekutunya , DIKALAHKAN oleh ALLĀH melalui TANGAN PARA MUJĀHIDĪN AFGHANISTAN.
You're 100% correct 👍🙏🙂
@@hudijt-ytc alla no existe ninguna religión es real
@@塩ラーメン-j1y How do u figure ?
What song started around 29 minute mark. I like the western/hispanic/techno feel of it. Haha
True ... Doesn't seem for the time ...
There is no such thing as "lawful war." Soviets invaded acting on their foreign policy. It may have been immoral, but not unlawful.
Afghanistan = Graveyard of Empires.
No you are wrong
Add Vietnam to that.
la plus grand déroute quand même pas.. disons que si a l'époque les afghan n'était pas soutenu et équipé comme le sont actuellement les ukros, les soviétiques les auraient roulé dessus...
derrotaron al imperio soviético y al imperio estadounidense por eso tiene mi respeto Afganistán, lo cual no significa que me gusta Afganistán ni los terroristas que hoy gobiernan ese país pero la verdad no se puede ocultar por mucho tiempo, y para mi es muy interesante de ver como la población de la urss y los militares no le veían sentido a esa ocupación y por eso no querían estar allí
The insanity looking at this and Ukraine. Is it because of the dictator now compared to the premier then? With so many current losses when compared to afghan war, it’s just insanity and horror. Very interesting to hear about the heroin brought back
English please!
@@Hamishtarah solo usa el traductor de Google si realmente quieres saber lo que dice
@@habinadadsadelsilvadiaz8700 🤣😂😅
Et la présence de la France en Corée, Indochine, Algérie, ... ça s'appelle comment ??? La réussite interstellaire
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Quel rapport avec la France ?
@@Zizi-festif Rien c'est encore un fan de Poutine qui utilise la fameuse tactique du "AH OUAIS ET LES AUTRES ALORS ILS ONT FAIT PIRE!"
Elle est où le rapport avec la France ?
@@kevinjaonasy5669 il est là où il faut chercher
It was Chernobyl that was the nail in the coffin for the Soviet union. The Afghanistan war didn’t help, but the Afghan war alone wouldn’t have been enough to break up the Soviet union.
the cover up of chernobyl anyhow, and the loss in afghanistan was for sure a defining factor.
Soviet already decline under Brezhnev in early 1970s
Angola was the final nail. Russian vetrans of Afghanistan said that nothing could have prepared them for what happened to them in southern Angola at the hands of the South Africans.
@@danielbtwd battle hardened boers is nothing ot fuck with bro.
Thats right
USA gave Afghans money, all kinds of support, and high tech weapons like stingers to eliminate Soviet air threat. War ended 1989. 12 years later Taliban was fighting the America after Spt 11 attacks.
If Soviets did not invade Afghanistan it may not have collapsed the same way as it did 2 years after Afghan war ended. Sep 11 attacks almost certainly would not of happened.
Entire world history changed because 2 superpowers were fighting over waist-land called Afghanistan. Today it’s governed by Taliban whose laws and conduct resembles the years 1200’s. 1000 years of human evolution and progress out of the window.
If you are born as a woman in Afghanistan you rank below family pet.
The Soviets and China did the same thing in Vietnam with the Vietminh/Vietcong. The effects were different. Because the real enemy here, by far, is Koranic religious ideology.
yeah, these 2 caucasians should not instigate fight on other's soil. they can go to each other's throat directly
Ignorance is bliss. Deepen your knowledge of the subject.
@@mytboss it’s nice to send a few word response without any thoughtful explanation. What what it sounds like I have forgotten more about the subject than you have even known.
To get your info right the real reason britian russia USA and nato was sent not went but sent to afghanistan because it was the only country that was still establishing sharia law there problem was with islam nothing else they read our book very carefully I'm a muslim and they probably have more knowledge about my religion than me because they know the future war with the west will start from afghanistan & pakistan and islam will spread throughout the whole world and pakistan afghanistan will become a world super power.
For your info about the women islam says hevean is beneath a mother's feet and if a person has 2 or more daughters he will enter hevean no question and there's many more statuses islam has gave women you have just been fed western lies
Aujourd'hui ces l'Ukraine 😂😂😂😂
C'est complètement différent
The United States and Soviet Union lost in Afghanistan. I blame Andropov for getting the USSR into this war.
Brezhnev was warned in the 1950's by blind Seer and Mystic Baba Vanga not to involve the #USSR IN ANY WARS IN ASIA.
For Uni Soviet, Actually, this war in Afganistan was the caused the fall of Soviet, by pray of Afganistan's people to the GOD, and by pressure of internasional policy... What an unfortunately
On n'apprend pas beaucoup par la victoire ou le succès, mais on apprend beaucoup par la défaite ou l'échec. Proverbe Japonais.
Visiblement la Russie n a rien appris.
@@patricehenry6715 1945 La🇫🇷collaborait avec Hitler qui Génocide les✡️ pendant que la🇷🇺était à Berlin pour nous libérer du nazisme. 2024 la🇫🇷en partenariat avec les nazis🇺🇦et juifs🇮🇱 qui génocident la🇵🇸🤦
@@patricehenry6715 Macron est le larbin de Washington.
Great doc well produced 👌
Nice - Russian with French subtitles...great work!
😂
"..if the Soviet Union let another political party come into existence,
they would still be a one-party state, because everybody would join the other party.." - Ronald Reagan .
As a child I always admired the Americans for their valor and honor but the older I got the more I realized that the U.S. is more often times the bad guy pretending to be the good guy and causing conflicts all over the globe.
The war wouldn’t have happened if Osama hadn’t flown 2 planes into the world trade centre. Do you know why Osama decided to do that? Me neither….
@@tl9223 legends say it was a false flag operation conducted by the sinister CIA.
USA, Russia, all of them cause problems everywhere because they are biggest and think they are untouchable.
@@tl9223 You mean the dude that was armed and formed by the USA? That lead an entire organisation that was able to exist only because of US suplied weapon and training?
Yeah, wonder how all of this could have happened...
@@tl9223 Are you joking? You think the US only started meddling in the Middle East after the attacks? Nothing spurred that on?😂
Anti-US sentiment only gained traction in the ME because the US was there, doing US shit. Funding t*rrorist groups, coup’ing elected leaders (‘53), & backing dictators (can’t forget the Shah. For 25 whole years. For oil).
Honestly, it was a matter of when, not if. Awful for the civilians caught up in the government’s mess, but the response was also wholly unjustifiable for the Afghani civilians too. They didn’t deserve to be invaded, bombed, and occupied for 20 years, for something almost all of them had absolutely zero part in.
We lost our great grandpa and many of our lovers on that war
La plus grande déroute de l'URSS et qui servira de malédiction aux Amérloques et leurs marionnettes 😂😂😂😂....c'est ça le mystère 😂😂😂😂
whats in Afghanistan besides opium anyone would want?
Vietnam was the wests source of Opium. Coincidence?
Gold and some other rare metals.
@@Terrorkarel what about uranium and that stuff they make computer chips and circuit boards?
People planning attacks on USA at the time , the 00s
Your mom is there and she is desirable to atleast someone or you wouldn’t be born
51:34 ... funny.., so funny.. sometimes its difficult to understand if we are talking about Afghanistan or.. Ukraine lol... Time passes, people change and interests surround objectives that vary little from era to era.
Ukraine has do deal with the same shit right now
C'est vrai que les américains ont fait beaucoup mieux en Afghanistan...ou en Irak...ou en Syrie.
Ouai, ils ont fait payer la note a d autres. Ils sont plus balèze!
lol anyone that uses "causes: in the title of this doesn't have a clue
Ya know, I've learned from America especially and other countries that help other countries. That a country should just help a country to be kind and not try to convert them to their government. It never works. If a country just helped another then maybe the kindness would win over a country or atleast have a friend in them and Not an enemy. Too much war and fighting. Let us help each other and stop fighting! ❤❤❤🙏🙏🙏
Everyone before 2001 talking how badly the Russians lost in Afghanistan, then comes America and says, hold my beer.
Pourquoi l’homme s’acharne t il à s’auto détruire? Félicitations pour votre documentaire
C est ds sa nature
It's very profitable for those that push it.
very good documentary👍
Massoud became GRU controlled opposition. Every clan leader was cucked to the USSR by the time the Red Army pulled out.
No se parece en nada a Ucrania. En ese tiempo no existían los drones con las capacidades y las cantidades que existen hoy. Era otra estrategia, otro tipo de guerra, otro ambiente geográfico otro tipo de población con capacidades diferentes. Los soviéticos se prepararon décadas para pelear contra la OTAN en Europa y uno de los lugares era justamente Ucrania
Yes, dif, just exponential now in regards to weapons and money spent. Modernization allows for more deaths, bu5 its more or less the same thing. Communist gov was kicked out of Afghanistan an$ the soviets invaded.
Proo Russian gov kicked out of Ukraine and the Russians invaded. Same exact thing, just slower mortality rate. All war sux.
Heureusement qu'on n'est pas dès ignorants....pas tous. Quelle chance que les américains ont.... réussi 😅
16:47 what’s that black man doing there 😂
Col. Mengistu Hailemariam the Ethiopian Military leader.
Un peu de patience dans 2 ou 3 millions d'années lumière on finiras bien par faire la paix Bravo pour votre documentaire
les années lumières sont des distances pas une mesure du temps instruisez vous avant de dire n'importe quoi
1 Lichtjahr= 3,7 Milliarden Jahre😅
EUREKA💪
@@Nikou61 keskidi
@@burninhellfish Ni l'un ni l'autre toute seulles, c'est une description en temps (qu'il faut pour accomplir la distance) pour parcourir à la vitesse de la lumière ( 299 792,458 km/s )
Donc si je veux parcourir on va dire 18 millions de Km , le temps qu'il me faudra sera de 1 minute .
Il était plus simple de dire tout simplement ; dans 2 ou 3 millions d'années sans ajouter " lumière " qui en effet ne veut rien dire dans ce cas-ci
@@PROBERevealer Une année lumière est bien une unité de distance. C'est utiliser pour situer des astres en disant qu'ils sont a un tel nombre d'année lumière de nous, par exemple.
hopefully they include the part about the US/UN making the taliban
Bitter Lake by Adam Curtis is also a great documentary about the Afghan war
3:07 First were Estonia and latvia in 1920 18:11 how old USA politics who is in charge now in 2024? hahahahah
C est sûrement pas la plus grande déroute de l' histoire
Mais c’est celle qui a provoqué la fin de l’URSS...
les us y ont eu une grande déculottée
les occidentaux aussi ont eu des deroutes ton pays la France contre l'Allemagne, Vietnam..
C'est vrai pendant 20 ans L'Otan a essayé pour le même résultat la déroute.
@@YvesTagro-wv3wb la France a gagné toutes ses guerres contre l'Allemagne. Et le Vietnam on en est parti après une courte défaite, on a pasbprisvune déculottée. T'es complètement débile c'est ça ?
Et qui plus est on formait et armer les talibans c'est des Américains qui ont créé les talibans et les talibans ils ont chassé d'Irak je sais pas de quoi on parle là lol😂
29:27 All of a sudden it turns into a weird cumbia music video. 🤔
In which year was this documentary done? ...
The whole world gives russia crap about going there and then the us goes there twice? Its rediculous
On parle du dernier empire qui à essayer de faire la même chose et qui est entrain de crevé comme l'Urss?
Talib not weak, Ukraine is very weak teribble weak only with his friends they are a little little bit sneaky towards Russia. Ukraine know its a sneaky country
Уши Советы оттуда и сразу их империя рухнула!так и непобеди ли гордый народ!
USSR & USA
Encore et toujours les Américains ? Posez-vous la bonne question lol
ruclips.net/video/HRNPu6H0REE/видео.html
the russian translation is wrong, he said comrade americans, not comrade capitalists
hello ,je reve ou a 17.33 on voit des drapeaux lgbt ?!??
Why you didn’t make video USA war in Afghanistan 😊
Khuy nha
Er si nous parlions de la defaite américaine en Afghanistan 😂
Répression ? Plutôt des carnages
Et si l'on parlait de la plus grande des routes américaines il y en a plusieurs mdr😂
This country has been through so much in the last 40 years... poor people.
stupid people that occupy this land
China will fix it Im sure 🤔🤔🤣🤣
"Funny" thing is, they had the choice to get rid of all the islamists. And now look where they stand today.
40 years? Multiply that number by 20
Now everything is American😁😁😁😁😁😁😁
The fist 20 seconds is an intro that would catch Bald & Bankrupts attention
Nah, 20 seconds without chicks wont bait him.
Jérémie, 17:5 - Ainsi parle l`Éternel: Maudit soit l`homme qui se confie dans l`homme, Qui prend la chair pour son appui, Et qui détourne son coeur de l`Éternel! !!!
Le bouddhisme n'est plus majoritaire en Afghanistan à partir de 1050 seulement. Et à la fin du 19eme siècle, l'émir Abdur Rahman Khan mène une guerre contre les derniers non-musulmans, des montagnards guerriers du Kafiristan (Nouristan).
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The military defeat to take varsaw (1920).
Some lost battles during the German invasion (Kiev-Smolensk../especially at the beginnin of the war) with considerable losses.
You say a little bit of anything
"American propaganda " to my opinion .😊
Ils ont pris la raclée par des éleveurs de chevres. Les russes avait déclaré la querre.
30:59 is the best quote in the whole documentary 😂😂
29:36
even in war... you still want adidas