Do you think the Afghans would've won without foreign support? Afghan History Playlist: ukposts.info/slow/PLiPhmAD3I2JwtvkJo3FEzNjREicYlQgm1

"When you try to change someones ways by force your Going to Face Resistance "

This was an awesome documentary - gonna watch it again.

Both US and Soviet were defeated by such powerless countries of Afghanistan and vietnam.moral of the story don't be a bully to a weak one

Shout out to Afghanistan, they put up one hell of a fight against every aggressor

The Soviets must have laughed their heads off when USA got involved in Afghanistan.🤣🤣🤣

"Jihad and the rifle alone: no negotiations, no conferences and no dialogues" - Abdullah Azzam

Grave yard of empires...gives me goosebumps 🌚

This was one of the most important conflicts of the 20th century, mujahedeen were the first ones to break the myth of Soviet invencibality,,and showed the world that it can be done.

It's not terrorism it's called resistance can't walk in to someone's homeland and tell them there way of living is wrong and must change

Did my tour in AF and I fell in love with this country. I felt as if I had come home and had some weird connection to this miraculous place. Been to the Salang tunnel, unless you have been there and seen the topography of the land, you will understand why the Russians left KM and the Panjir valley alone when the opportunity came for a short term peace.

I was 6 when thee Soviet came to my country, I’m 37 now and I remember everything like it happened yesterday. May Allah grant our brave people paradise and may Allah continue bless us with courage and faith in sha Allah 🙏🏽

This is my favourite channel. I especially like it when you explain everything so nicely. I wish you a lot of success with the channel and happy life.

Thanks for this…..I learned a lot 👍🏻

The videos just keep getting better and better, keep em coming Hikma! 💯

This is so exceptionally well narrated & made. I’ve just faved this content to your channel & subbed.

thanks for adding depth to our understanding of this recent war

This is a very awesome documentary that explained one of my favorite conflicts in a highly detailed way. Thank you!

Find this channel unexpectedly and subs instantly. Hope for more informative and fascinating videos.

excellent work this is really informative

This was great 👍

Update 2.0 : When the Afghans defeated the US and no one really question the hypocrisy and corruption on both sides. 🤔

Never mess with these guys when it comes to weapons because they've been fighting all there lives.

Beautiful documentary!

Great content. Subscribed 👍

Excellent documentary. I learned so much

It's nice to have the events put in a straight line...I lived through those times and much of this was unknown.

GREAT INFO

Very true the notion that the Afghan jihad was so big and consequential that it is impossible to be attributed to a handful individuals called leaders.

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Very cool video

Correction: Massoud signed the truce (which didnt last) with the soviet to break the siege in panjshir, that was killing and starving his locals which he was leading. Massoud had history of putting his people first, just like when Americans asked him and paid him to close salang pass in 1990 so they could launch a large offensive and topple the president, Dr najibullah, but he didnt. Citing that the salang pass was important for his locals.

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Muito obrigado pelo documentário! its super interesting especially to see those pictures of Afghan society in the 50s-60s, how modernist it was. Seldomly in the West we are presented pictures of afghan society in that way, always more of a colonial look. How a difficult war in a foreign country played part in bringing down the Soviet Union now rings familiar with the russian war in Ukraine. Peace to all Afghan people, may they now find liberation without foreign interventions.

Great segment! But you’ve gotta share the music in the background, that particular one . Tia

I like your channel name then i watch your documentary video, both of Superb.

Unfortunately they were played by foreign (American) financing which united various factions in the country that had extremely different ideologies, but together all formed the Mujheideen. After the war was won against the Soviets all these groups had no reason to be united anymore and they splintered. One of these groups was the Taliban, and the rest is history.

Now do one on the NATO invasion of Afghanistan and the freedom struggle of the Afghans against the occupiers.

36:59 2 million dead figure is quiet questionable for me, the total population was around 14 mil, but the refugee population was also in the millions. By looking at Afghanistans population growth through out its decades, we can see that without the soviet war their population would've been at 16 million by the later 1980s. yet multiple millions of afghans were in Pakistan and Afghanistan.

Afghanistan has never been conquerored. I was traveling through Afghanistan in 1977. Met the Mujahideen in the mountains, who told us that the CIA were there training them in guerilla tactics, as it was anticipated Russia would invade, which they did November 1979. America helped Afghanistan, but once Russia left, instead of leaving became an occupational force, after the billions of minerals underground, and from this developed all the break off factions.

I finally found a more detailed documentary about the Soviet Afghan war so many other ones just gloss over all the details

CIA may have not been the main reason for the uprising, but it actively encouraged and stoked the uprising.

freedom fighters become insurgents dependent on how the narrator wants you to perceive the subject... also bitter lake is a great documentary that kind of goes full circle

Very interesting. The second time i watched this video.

If it was not for all the war Afghanistan would be a beautiful country even with the wars parts are still beautiful

New Title " When the Americans defeated the Soviet Union in Afghanistan and Afghanistan defeated America"!!!!!!!

Great Documentary Thanks for the content 👍🇦🇫

I am a VET and I can tell you NOBODY can defeat an enemy who has "SANCTUARY COUNTRIES" to hide in... Examples? We can start with an earlier war (VIETNAM WAR) we ALL should have paid attention to BEFORE committing to any war like this. The enemy was able to hide in Cambodia and Laos and re-enter Vietnam at will to initiate attacks... Fast-Forward to Afghanistan, the Generals all knew the Russians faced the SAME thing from the Afghan Mujahideen being able to hide in Pakistan, Waziristan, Baluchistan, Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan, Tajikistan...

When the Soviets invaded and occupied Afghanistan it was all darkness, the world that the Afghans knew was gone and now these foreign European looking men with pale skin, blue eyes, and guttural voices riding on tanks and holding automatic weapons were now in charge of their lives and they cruel, sadistic, and brutal. It was the dark ages forced upon Afghanistan, descended upon them. Imagine how hard life was like for the 13 million Afghans who lived under Soviet occupation. And the two million slaughtered under it. The world owes Afghanistan an eternal gratitude debt that can never be repaid by defeating the Soviet Union. No other country fought as hard as Afghanistan against Soviet Imperialism. Not Ukraine, not Finland, not Hungary, not Poland, and not even Nazi Germany caused such long term harm to the USSR. Afghans fought the longest, hardest, and suffered the most. For years they fought Soviet tanks and hinds with sticks and stones until the USA, UK, China, and other countries started sending weapons and supplies to the Afghan freedom fighters. The Afghans outnumbered and outgunned by the technologically and militarily superior Soviets won in the end because they had the indomitable will to win because the thought of losing their country was unbearable. It was thanks to Afghanistan and its people for causing the collapse of the Soviet Union ultimately and bringing an end to the Cold War. While I admire a lot of Soviet culture and scientific engineering I cannot say the same about their military and Government who were on par as evil and immoral as the Axis Powers during World War 2.

Appreciate this. The Soviet-Afghan War has always been my favorite war to study because of its long lasting and tragic effects. Not to mention it being Russia’s Vietnam

Afghanistan, my home away from home. I miss it and I miss my friends that are still there. What a truly beautiful country with even more beautiful and amazing people.

Awesome.

Poor Afghans were torn by war like Viet Nam. Wish their future will be brighten.

One Thing ie observed in during withdrawal of the Soviets , that they had their planned exit in an organized way the democratic government setup after their withdrawal lasted Almost 6-7 years which means almost a term this was unlike American withdrawal in which the government fell in 3 months

excellent documentary, thanks ali g!

4:21 Introduction of socialism/communism. 4:58 1965 Nur Mohammad Taraki, Babrak Karmal and others establish People’s Democratic Party of Afghanistan (PDPA). 5:19 PDPA splits into two main factions. Khalq (more radical) and Parcham (more moderate). 6:23 1973 King Zahir Shah/Mohammad Daud Khan, bloodless coup. 9:00 / 9:22 April 1978 Saur Revolution.

Power to the people of Afghanistan. Poorest country to defeat the most sophisticated super powers.

Great doco. Sad for Afghanistan tho. They seem to be a target for every imperial power to this very day 😢

Gotta say, the mines weren’t camouflaged as childrens toys. It’s just that the soviet light infantry mine is colourful and I think mostly rubbery in texture, making it distinctly not-mine-like. I understand the frustration because of atrocity but historic nor hysteric hyperbole helps no one.

As an American millennial growing up with the War in Afghanistan, I always was curious of Afghanistan before 9/11

Time to do a new documentary on the USA now.

On a scale of 1-10 how much do you hate the taliban?

I love watching the Nigerian representative roasting the shit out of The Soviets.

Interesting/informative/entertaining. Excellent still-motion pictures/maps. Enabling viewers to better understand what what the orator is describing. 😉Had I had the final decision. Afghanistan 🇦🇫 wouldn’t have been invaded. Afghanistan’s rough rocky terrain makes for very difficult military operations. As the Soviet armed military forces encountered.

Hope to see a movie on How the Afghans Defeated the US and NATO soon.

good, but cut the long intro

Not communist students and military officers travel abroad to Soviet Union. They were sent. Country leadership sent the military personnel for training in USSR at the same time civil servants for training in USA, this was the start of the friction.

As an Afghan citizen I think the war with soviets was very wrong since it didn't serve our interests rather it destroyed our already "broken" country.

“The idealistic, unrealistic left”- nothing has changed in 40 plus years.

U think USSR did Bad, hold my beer says the USA

With the help of the Americans and Pakistan. And the brave men of Afghanistan. The lionesses of Afghanistan who sacrificed their men open heartedly to maintain honour

So far this great documentary, not to biased either way and gave me slot of information I didn't know. I'm a writer and doing an alternate history novel where the Soviets win the cold war ww3 cause the Nazi trope has been done to death

As a Russian I can say Afghans have proven to be the strongest in the middle east. To push off the USSR and US nobody has done that. We Russians today still dont like or accept most of the decisions of Gorbachev and Yeltsin. This war in Afghanistan was useless. And the actions of how the war was being handled in Chechnya is sickening. They were sacrificing Russian soldiers like nothing while bombing tf of Chechnya like nothing. Also didn't help our brothers and sisters od Serbia against NATO. So basically, God bless Putin.

Big respect for the Afghans. They take no S*** from any aggressors. They still stand through the test of times. You can't change their way of life!!

The bombs were not disguised as children’s toys. They were made of plastic to be cheap and given a wing to change drift. They were bomblets from a cluster bomb.

I remember when they would drop mail out of the helicopters and it would say you can’t be outside after 9:00 or you would be arrested also you would have to turn off your lights because they could shoot at you

I've been wondering who from the two sides of the Cold War did a worse job in Afghanistan, but after watching this documentary I'm convinced the Soviets had the bigger failure

Zbigniew Brzezinski : President Carter signed his first order on the secret assistance to Kabul’s pro-Soviet regime opponents(six months before the Soviet invasion). That day I wrote a memorandum to the President in which I told him that that assistance would cause the Soviet intervention, we did not force the Russian intervention, we just, conscientiously, increase the intervention possibilities. --When the Soviets justified their intervention by affirming they were fighting against a secret American interference nobody believed them, though they were telling the truth. Don’t you regret it? Zbigniew Brzezinski : Regret what? That secret operation was an excellent idea... VOLTAIRE NETWORK 22 OCTOBER 2004

thank.s fore Repeat History Thank .s frome History

My Neighbor, was in Afghanistan back then, helping them against Russia, he said Russia was using T55 and T62 Tanks ,

When it comes to heckmatyar and the accusations of desired and attempted territorial expansion he’s no different than most of the mujahideen leaders except for basically two groups one being Massouds Northern Alliance and ‘The One Eyed King’ Mullah Omars (if I remember correctly 🙏) Taliban. In fact when I think about Afghan history between 1930’s-2000 I tend to compare it to Chinese history between 1910-1970’s they both went from kingdoms/dynasties to republic and coalition style governments, they both had a warlord period except at different points in their time lines being 1918-1934 for China and then about 1987/88-1997/8 for Afghanistan, they both had to fight off the yolk of a much larger invader with almost incomprehensible tactics and technology and came out on top using gorilla war supplies from the United States, for both nations the last two factions standing after years of fighting a technologically advanced occupier and themselves was a secular and democratic faction and a radical faction, and for both beautiful countries sadly the radical faction won out.

The British the Russians, can't forget the US all gave up fighting them.

I have a request can you do a video on a specific individual....im referring to general rasheed dostum whos territory was mazar-e-sharif aka Balkh during the 90s-2000s

Whats crazy is how from the beginning of times countries/civilizations would come into another's country/territory trying to tell them how to live etc.. No wonder these people fought for their home land and it created decades long resistance.

Ukraine still has the blood of Afghans and Poles on its hands, which it refuses to wash off, by praising the very murderers who committed such atrocities. Ukraine hasn't gotten over it yet. Hence why the Ukrainian parliament declared Bandera's birthday a national holiday, praises the OUN as war heroes and the government banned the Polish War film "Wolyn" or "Hatred" in english. They even built a memorial celebrating all the Ukrainians who fought and died in the Soviet Afghan War. You should know that most Ukrainians in the West of Ukraine do not ignore their heroes, in fact the worst of their heroes are praised by half of the population there - there are polls to prove it conducted by Ukrainian organizations. There are great statues in the center of some cities to honor Stepan Bandera. They have their own version of what happened and become aggressive when their formulated perspective is challenged. Some of them HATE Russians with burning passion, while most simply strongly dislike them. Hate for Russians is a tolerated view within society. And yet.. in the Eastern part of the same country.. it is almost all ethnic Russians. Could anybody honestly have a discussion with Ukrainians about their country's Fascist and Neo Nazi problem without a "WHAT ABOUT RUSSIA" nonsense? Everytime I hear that it sounds like Ukraine is justifying the horrific mass killings of Poles because "MUH HOLODOMOR". The Ukrainians must face up to their past and completely separate themselves from the Nazi ideology, which unfortunately is not the case. Today it supports more than half of Ukrainians. In this situation, I do not see a chance for normal relations between Poland and Ukraine. Nor do I see a positive and inclusive future in Ukraine for foreigners and outsiders. Ukraine seems to be heading towards a very dark and bleak path. Just as Ukrainian Nationalism during World War 2 led to hundreds of thousands of Poles being slaughtered in the most horrifying ways that even the Nazis themselves were traumatized by the brutality. It seems like another genocide is imminent maybe during or after the war against Roma people, ethnic Russians, or even just "foreigners" in general. Ukraine could end up like Turkey another country that denies genocides. Turkey is pretty much a Fascist country and I see Ukraine heading in the same direction if it continues white washing its own history and celebrating some of the worst war criminals and monsters in human history that would make even Stalin and Beria weep in horror. If Ukraine was a true democracy they would not only show the Polish war film "Wolyn" which depicts the Ukrainian barbaric genocide of Poles during World War 2 to all theaters within Ukraine, they would embrace the film and talk about its dark history like Germany does with the Holocaust and World War 2 and reconcile with Afghanistan and Poland, apologizing and removing everything glorifying Ukrainian war criminals and mass murderers. Even Japan allow films like "City of Life and Death" and "John Rabe" which depict the Nanking Massacre to be shown within their country. Why can't Ukraine do the same instead of denying its own atrocities and genocides like Turkey does with the Armenian genocide? Turkey has been genociding the Kurds because it did not learn from its history. Ukrainian far right militias like Azov have been engaging in atrocities against ethnic Russians in Donbas for over 8 years because they did not learn from their history. I don't even have to point out true democracies like Japan and Germany to make my point. I can literally point out China which is run by an authoritarian Government that would make Orwell blush teaches its own citizens about how bad the Cultural Revolution and the Great Leap Forward were mostly horrible mistakes. EVEN CHINA HAS MORE INTEGRITY THAN UKRAINE WHEN CONFRONTING THEIR OWN PAST AND HISTORY! Films about the consequences of the Great Leap Forward and Cultural Revolution are allowed in China.

When the next potential invader stops to think twice, that'll be progress 👍

I worked with a guy from one of the Baltic states (ussr), he was in this war. He basically said any invasion of Afghanistan is a mistake!

It doesn't matter who, what or where, when it comes to war somewhere America is involved.

May God protect my mother's people. The fiercest, proudest, bravest and most humble and hospitable of warriors. They give honor when received with honor and retribution when sullied. No man has ever enslaved or conquered them though many have tried. They are the tribes and they have their covenant with God. It brings tears to my eyes to think that these simple people have become a benchmark where hubris-filled empires venture to earn a feather in their cap. And like all the rest they lose. But they leave a trail of blood and death. The arrogant U.S. learned that lesson after 20 years.

When the Afghans defeated US NATO after invading that country. Maybe US nato thought Afghanistan was Yugoslavia or Libya.

When i was a kid, i either read or someone told me that kids would be used to kite grenades / IEDs up at the helicopters.

Lukee The documentary. Would love If you could deal with civil war and The war crimes commited By The mujahadeen. Alot of our people never Have had good Image of mujahadinian or in pashto toppakian

6:31 from the famine that occured in 1971-72 according to a documentary i saw, zahir shah apparently didnt do much about it, a factor that led to daoud khan taking the situation in his hands. 7:22 Pashtuns of the northwest were unable to join Afghanistan/declare an independent Pashtunistan, they were forced into Pakistan.

To much drama here. Afghanistan is just were superpowers go to target practice. Peace to Afghanistan!

Lost many battles, never lost a war ⚔️

Forgot to mention about the 200 Russian advisors who were beheaded during an uprising in mazarif sheriff in 1978 before the invasion . This was the tipping point for andropov😊

GRAVEYARD OF EMPIRES

Please do one of the Nato occupation from 2001 to 2021

I’m at 7:58 and so far every little detail is correct

Afghanistan was the soviets Vietnam and also America’s second Vietnam…