Why Did the Soviet Union Lose the War in Afghanistan? Roxanne C. Jones Politics 300‚ Section 003016 Why Did the Soviet Union Lose the War in Afghanistan? ‘Do you think you are going to win?’ ‘Yes‚ yes of course.’ ‘What makes you think so? What makes you think you are going to win?’ ‘I believe we are going to win. It’s evident!’ (Panjshairi commander Ahmad Shah Massoud in an interview from the French prize-winning documentary film ‘Valley against an Empire’ by Jerome Bony and Christophe de Ponfilly
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with the instantaneous collapse of Soviet Union. I think there is three reasons that caused Soviet Union lost this war. Frist of all it’s the awful foreign policy of Soviet Union that pushes all their allies away. Although Soviet Union had used the slogan of liberate the world to support many natives of the western colony to fight for freedom and it works very well‚ but the soviet union never takes her allies as her allies‚
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SOVIET FOREIGN POLICY: 1919-1945 Soviet foreign policy throughout the period from 1919 to 1945 is confusing and often contradictory. By the 1920’s the Bolshevik communists found themselves the leaders of a former Great Power which was pulled by conflicting tendencies. On the one hand‚ communist ideology preached a world-wide “worker’s revolution” whose goal was the dissolution of all nation-states. On the other hand‚ Russia needed the support of other nations in order to rebuild its political
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and Soviet Union after World War two. Suspicion and mistrust had defined the US and the Soviet Union relations for decades. Although Cold War was called a “war”‚ it didn’t really use weapons to fight with each other. Both superpowers threatened each other with nuclear annihilation and participated frequently in supporting allied nations‚ which had violent wars‚ like Korea‚ Vietnam‚ and Angola. The most important underlying causes were the ideology and economic. The USA and the Soviet Union represented
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sides‚ as well as the weather conditions being very cold and ruff. The Soviets can be blamed and most responsible for the Cold War. Most of the responsibility for the war went towards the Soviet Union because of their aggressive actions in the Eastern Europe. The Soviet Union was largely to blame and place particular emphasize on the paranoid on ideology motivated character of speech‚ Joseph Stalin. Stalin says that the Soviets Union needs
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Joseph Stalin ruled the Soviet Union as a virtual dictator between 1928 and 1954. During the first ten years of his rule Stalin introduced dramatic change to the Soviet Union in the areas of industrialisation‚ agriculture‚ culture and education. While there were some benefits for both the nation and the people with respect to the consequences of his policies on industrialisation and education‚ the impact of his policies regarding agriculture‚ and culture was overwhelmingly damaging to the Russian
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Stalin was the dictator of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics from 1929 to 1953. He was born December 18‚ 1878 and he died in 1953. He was born in Georgia. He was the leader of the Soviet Union‚ he ordered every citizen to the Soviet Union to not surrender and to use a single drop of blood. By saying this he is ordering a massacre killing 27 million soviets in WW2. He killed dissidents‚ sent millions of untrained Russians into the war and industrialized the Soviet Union‚ which required more killing
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The cold war began around 1945 and relations between the U.S. and the Soviet Union continued to deteriorate for 40 years. During this time tensions between The U.S and its NATO allies and the soviet union grew along with dooming pressures of nuclear war. The Soviet Union tried to spread communism while the U.S. fought against their political ideology. The Soviet Union was more responsible for causing this cold war. The North Atlantic Treaty was signed by the U.S.‚ Canada‚ and ten nations of Western
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US broke social boundaries and departed from the Cold War norms by attempting to restore a good relationship with the Soviet Union. During the Nixon administration the Cold War diplomacy continued through the Vietnam war. During the earlier years as president he continued to fight the Vietnam war‚ which was a fight between the US backed South Vietnamese and the Chinese and Soviet backed North Vietnamese. Through the war many issues between communism and democracy arose‚ and the former HUAC member
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eastern front amassed more than 15‚000‚000 million deaths. In late 1939‚ Hitler proposed a non-aggression pact between Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union. This effectively gave Hitler time and a sense of protection from the east and allowed his Wehrmacht to focus their efforts elsewhere. This non-aggression pact didn’t last forever though and eventually the Soviet Union would join the Allied powers to help defeat the Nazis. To more fully understand the situation one
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