The Second Cold War - Afghanistan
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- Created on: 11-12-19 18:45
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- Why was Afghanistan important to the USSR?
- Soviets were in danger of losing their strategic, ideological, political and economic influences in Europe.
- thought that Amin was unreliable to control the growing Islamic opposition
- shared a 2500km boarder
- USSR needed to protect its own security
- Afghanistan has to remain a buffer zone
- if it aligned with USA it would strengthen their geostrategic power at the expense of the USSR
- Brezhnev Doctrine
- USSR now committed to supporting communist allies to ensure stability and conformity
- Soviets were in danger of losing their strategic, ideological, political and economic influences in Europe.
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