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• Afghanistan: History, society

  41^st Anniversary : Veracities of Afghanistan’s Saur Revolution in 1978

  25 April 2019, by KHAN Lal

  After more than eighteen years of imperialist aggression and occupation of Afghanistan, the US imperialists are losing their longest war in history. They are facing yet another shameful defeat after those in Korea, Vietnam, Iraq and Syria. Their frustration from this rout is evident in their (...)

• Afghanistan: History, society

  Ideology and Electricity: The Soviet Experience in Afghanistan

  17 April 2012, by PARENTI Christian

  In the teahouses and street stalls of Kabul, one sometimes sees the portrait of a stern, round-faced man with dark hair and a mustache. It is the visage of Muhammad Najibullah, the last president of communist Afghanistan. Najibullah joined the People’s Democratic Party of Afghanistan (PDPA) in (...)

• Afghanistan: History, society

  Afghanistan: Andropov was right

  8 June 2011, by ALI Tariq

  Afgantsy: The Russians in Afghanistan 1979-89 by Rodric Braithwaite, Profile, 417 pp, £25.00, March 2011, ISBN 978 1 84668 054 0
  A Long Goodbye: The Soviet Withdrawal from Afghanistan by Artemy Kalinovsky, Harvard, 304 pp, £20.95, May 2011, ISBN 978 0 674 05866 8 Rodric Braithwaite, British (...)