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AFGHANISTAN 1979: THE WAR THAT CHANGED THE WORLD
By Gulya Mirzoeva

In 1979, when Soviet troops entered Afghanistan, they said it was only a 'limited contingent' of armed forces. Little did they know that the war would last ten years, and play a key role in the collapse of the Soviet Union (not to mention launch Osama Bin Laden and Al Qaeda).

AFGHANISTAN 1979: THE WAR THAT CHANGED THE WORLD examines this final conflict of the Cold War focusing on events from the side of the 'invading' Soviets. Former Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev, who here speaks publically on the Afghanistan invasion for the first time, is joined by Afghan, Russian, and American generals, journalists, intelligence analysts, and resistance leaders.

Together with the use of hitherto secret Soviet archives (the film reveals the single hand-written page that was the only record of the official decision to intervene in Afghanistan, a country that was never named in the document but instead designated by the initial "A"), the film offers a privileged reading of contemporary history, and an expanded understanding of how we have come to such a seemingly intractable situation in the region.
DVD (Color, Closed Captioned)
52 minutes
2014
 
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