What is the background of the Soviet afghan war?

Answer 1

The first major event to affect the time leading up to the civil war in Afghanistan was the return from a decade of political exile of Mohammed Daoud Khan, in 1973. Daoud had been prime minister of Afghanistan until 1963, when his insistence on focusing on the question of reclaiming Afghan territories from Pakistan, rather than modernising Afghanistan as the King (Daoud?s cousin) Nadir Khan wished, had led to his forced resignation . Daoud?s return was in trouble really from before he actually returned to Afghanistan. Whilst he had been away, a rather haphazard constitutional monarchy had been established. Unfortunately (for Daoud at least) during this time many different political groups had emerged and grown stronger over the years . When Daoud returned he sought to re-establish an old style government, like the one he had left. While he was out of politics, Daoud saw both the issue of the areas of Pakistan which Afghanistan claimed, and the links he had made with the Soviets given less and less importance. The final straw was a particularly dry summer in Afghanistan, which led to a widespread famine during 1971." (to anyone using this website, STOP anybody can right anything they want...)

Answer 2

The Afghan people killed the dictator who had been put in power by the Soviets. The Soviets put in another guy, and they killed him too. Finally the Soviet Army invaded. After about 10 years, they left in disgust and disgrace, having been unable to control the general population. In the power vacuum that ensued, the Taliban came into power. They were not well received either, but at least they were Afghans, not Russians. The Taliban invited our old friend Osama bin Laden in to Afghanistan after he'd been kicked out of nearly every other hotbed of Islamic fundamentalism. He had been one of the mujahadeen that the US had secretly trained and outfitted during the Soviet invasion.

Answer 3

The Afghan people were not crazy about the puppet dictator in Afghanistan that was supported by the Russian communists. One day a bunch of them pulled him out of the palace, cut off his privates, and hung him up by his toes after slicing him up. Historically, the Afghans have not really liked any rulers at all. Only ONE of the rulers of Afghanistan since about 1600 left office alive. The Afghans kicked out Alexander the great, Genghis Khan, Timurlane, Akbar, and the British Army (three times in less than a hundred years) Anyway, the Soviet Army invaded Afghanistan to prop up their man, but the Afghans kicked their asses out too. Now we're there. Any guesses what mighthappen?

Answer 4

The soviet afghanistan war started because the Soviet Union wanted to take the oil from afghanistan and keep it to themselved, and also to spread the soviet power.

Answer 5

The war was between the former Soviet Union and Afghanistan, started when the Soviet Union invaded Afghanistan in 1979.