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- THE HISTORY OF AFGHANISTAN: SOVIET INVASION BY: SARA CODY, NICK
TORRES, AND CHRIS ROPPOLO
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- AT THE TIME, AFGHANISTAN WAS AN UNSTABLE MONARCHY, LEAD BY KING
ZAHIR SHAH.
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- THE SOVIETS LEADER, LEONID BREZHNEV ORDER TROOPS INTO
AFGHANISTAN.
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- THE SOVIETS ENTERED INTO THE WEAK GOVERNED AFGHANISTAN TO GAIN
MORE CONTROL OF ASIA.
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- US NEVER INTERVENES
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- SOME 1 MILLION AFGHANS DIED DURING THIS PERIOD, WITH MORE THAN
8,000 PEOPLE WERE EXECUTED AFTER BEING PUT ON TRIAL BETWEEN 1980
AND 1988. (THE SOVIET OCCUPATION OF AFGHANISTAN)
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- THE WITHDRAWAL OF SOVIET TROOPS IN FEBRUARY OF 1989
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